I was laying in my hotel room, staring at the clock   Was it time for me to leave this bed, yeah was my hour up?   Yeah I thought about the money and the way I spend my time   And the girl whose lying next to me, and what I did, and why      I stumbled out of revelry, looked over to my right   Whoever was beside me had vanished out of site   I laid there in those dirty sheets, a smile across my face   I wouldn’t take back anything now that I got a taste      And it’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when   It’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when      I was standing on the sidewalk   With my back against the wall   I felt like I was sinking   Sliding down onto the floor      And I could feel my body shaking   But not against the cold   I could see my vision blurring   I could hear someone approach      So this policeman beside me   He looked into my eye   He said, ‘boy have you lost something?’   And I answered with a lie      I stood there looking back at him   A smile across my face   Though I wouldn’t take back anything    Now that I’ve got a taste      And it’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when   It’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when      It’s the way I see things   I really never wanna let go   And the way I feel is    Measured by the things that I do      And it’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when   It’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when      And it’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when   It’s all gonna happen again   But you can’t tell me how and when.