Road To Joy

The sun came up with no conclusions
 Flowers sleeping in their beds
 The city's cemetery's humming
 I'm wide awake, it's morning
 I have my drugs, I have my woman
 They keep away my loneliness
 My parents, they have their religion
 But sleep in separate houses
 I read the body count out of the paper
 And now it's written all over my face
 No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
 Sometimes that's just the most comfortable place
 So I'm drinking breathing, writing singing
 Every day I'm on the clock
 My mind races with all my longings
 But can't keep up with what I've got
 So I hope I don't sound too ungrateful
 What history gave modern men
 A telephone to talk to strangers
 Machine guns and a camera lens
 So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
 It's best to join the side that's gonna win
 And no one's sure how all of this got started
 But we're gonna make 'em goddamn certain how it's gonna end
 Oh yeah, we will, oh yeah, we will
 Well, I could have been a famous singer
 If I had someone else's voice
 But failure's always sounded better
 Let's fuck it up boys, make some noise!
 The sun came up with no conclusions
 Flowers sleeping in their beds
 The city's cemetery's humming
 I'm wide awake, it's morning