Shell Game

(album: Resignation Day - 2008)

Stumbled up the alley over tins and wires and broken boxes left for us to trip across
Another bunch of rotten bad luck; you can't win man, what'd I tell you?
Mucking hands can have a cost

First soaring then collision; like my television, stories all end up the same
So we just drink deep, inhale, and cough; move on before it wears off
Are we smarter than this shell game? I blinked (I'm not)

Up the street to Grand Avenue, end up at the water front
Where pollution's made the sky go black
Never trust the books and never screw the ones who don't deserve it
Slump let reflections play back; watch

It's no use kid, I can't stop bleeding
Take this old guitar; it's all I'm leaving
It's seen the Jersey pines, bright neon signs and rode the Brighton Line
I'll tell you what you're up against, it's the toughest fucking town
I've ever seen and you're going it alone
You're an outsider so keep your profile low