Obsessed with the carnivalesque and the grotesque
Then I stand on stage and talk the truth like I know best
It's hopeless I try and take slow breaths

Some nights I get so wrecked
I'm destroying what I'm supposed to be employing
I know it ain't right but I keep on doing it

Is it pursuing me or is it me that is pursuing it?
Move with the fluidity or momentary stupidity
The slow and steady was killing me, world was too slow

Now it's too rapid like the bits in the films
When the canoe turns the corner and you see through the hills
Falling water, have our heroes been killed?

We ride to our home-grown slaughter on the boats that we built
Some folks are hoping we will
Be lying broken and still

At the foot of them peaks we dared scaling
I'm scared, but look failing's not an option
That's what sets me apart

My inner city is foul
But in the slum is a heart
That wants more!


Those that strive for light
Are often those most attracted to the dark of the night

Sometimes all I wanna do is just start up a fight
But I don't I drink wine by the pint and go home
With a conscience that bites and cold bones

Head keeps thumping saying punch me, kiss me
Make me feel something cuz tonight
I feel like I don't feel nothing

And the way that I am living is disgusting

Fortitude, humility, stability, self-control

These are the qualities I want from my soul
How come I keep sinking so low?
Given all the things that I know

You reap what you sow

Temperence, humility, stability, self-control

These are the qualities I want from my soul
How come I keep sinking so low?
I'm like the dregs in the bottle

The city's drinking me slow

And the city the city the city


I'm from a city where bodies get hacked up
and hidden in suitcases

Where tramps lick grease off of the newspapers
That used to hold chips
And I'm sure that beauty exists

But I look around and I see concrete raising our kids
I'm from a city where s3x sells and bodies sell s3x
Drunks slump in stairwells and retch

And yes everybody's sheltering a hidden complex
No rest for the wicked cos the wicked don't rest
We're just vessels though

Carrying a very precious cargo
You need to keep watertight
Weather the storms

Make sure we're moving on a relevant course
Make sure you're shipshape and that you're keeping what's stored


Safe and sound it ain't mine
It was given me
All I'm trying to do is deliver the goods

And reach that final destination I am sailing towards
I only unload my cargo in the safest of ports


In the city it's hard though everything is so surface
So superficial, so fake, so belittling
Try and have the confidence to learn to do a different thing

Gets to me bad that's why I leave the stage, hit the drinks
We purge to pollute purify to make filthy
I know that I'm good cos when I'm bad I feel guilty

Outside the pub with a mouthful of blood
Thinking all I really need is someone to love
To look forward to

Temperance, discipline, self-control

These are the qualities I want from my soul
How come I keep sinking so low?
Given all the things that I know
You reap what you sow
Temperence, humility, stability, self-control

These are the qualities I want from my soul
How come I keep sinking so low?
I'm like the dregs in the bottle
The city's drinking me slow


Outside the pub
Mouthful of blood
Thinking all I really need is someone to love
Outside the pub
Mouthful of blood

Thinking all I really need

Fortitude, stability, humility, self-control
These are the qualities I want from my soul
How come I keep sinking so low?
Given all the things that I know

You reap what you sow
Temperence, honesty, stability, self-control
These are the qualities I want from my soul
How come I keep sinking so low?
I'm like the dregs in the bottle
The dregs
The dregs in the bottle

The dregs