Scorpion Hill - PUP

Up on Scorpion Hill, watching life

Passing me by in the pale moonlight

And I sat there forever, three sheets to the wind

It’s not helping my case, the state that I’m in, but

It’s not how they told you

My intentions were good

I was just bursting apart like the end of the ark

Holding on to whatever I could

A square of light moves its way through the empty room

Across the stained yellow carpet

Like a ghost of myself in the afternoon

Haunting my basement apartment

I looked into the mirror hanging behind my door

The glass was cracked and the man staring back, he don’t look like me anymore

And if the world is gonna burn, everyone should get a turn to light it up

Down and out, I’ve been on the rocks

I’ve been having some pretty dark thoughts

I like them a lot, whoo!

Time and time again, well I’ve tried and failed

To get my act together

And I’ll admit lately things really went off the rails

I know that you deserve better

Then in the morning, as I was boarding the

Commuter train to work

The boss was calling, he said, «There's been cutbacks and I’m

Sorry you’re the first»

And if I can’t support the two of us, how can I support a third?

Down and out, I’ve been on the rocks

I’ve been having some pretty dark thoughts

And I’m on the brink, falling deep into debt

Falling deep into drink, I can drown those regrets

I don’t have to think…

Now I’m working the night shift

Asleep at the wheel

I was bursting apart like a flame from a spark

Thinking, «Jesus, this can’t be for real»

My sweat-soaked mattress

Corner of the room

Cigarettes and matches

In the fading afternoon

And a picture of my kid, yeah, he’s smiling

It’s the first day of school

She said, «I found the gun, it was buried beneath

Piles of clothes in the room where your son sleeps

And I can’t pretend, to know how this will end»