You had a better look than I, you caught it from the top of my world   How could they know this?   You're cut wide open, you spill all over the floor   cut wide open, you're pulling from the ropes   and running from the ones you know      Pray to the pessimist   They told you not forever   They told you not today   save me, till its all you can take   you promised me broadway   but you sold me cabaret               spit it out for better taste         I don't care if you're ready or not, the sentiment tears my hold   you come right up and you tear me open   I spill all over the floor   cut wide open, its been rough being broken, all alone, this body better get up      Pray to the pessimist   They told you not forever   They told you not today   save me, till its all you can take   you promised me broadway   but you sold me cabaret      Spit it out      Pray to the pessimist   They told you not forever   They told you not today   save me, till its all you can take   you promised me broadway   but you sold me cabaret      I don't care if you're ready or not    You're ready or not