The Ballad of the Costa Concordia

I used to like the mornings
 I'd survived another night
 I'd walk to breakfast through the garden
 See the flowers stretching in the sunlight
 Now I wake up in the mornings
 And all the kindness is drained out of me
 I spend hours just wincing
 And trying to regain some sense of peace
 If only I could sustain my anger
 Feel it grow stronger and stronger
 It sharpens to a point and sheds my skin
 Shakes off the weight of my sins
 And takes me to Heaven
 I stay up late every night
 Out of some general protest
 But with no one to tell you to come to bed
 It's not really a contest
 And maybe you think
 I'll learn from my mistake
 But not this time
 It's just gonna break me
 If only I could sustain my anger
 Feel it grow stronger and stronger
 It sharpens to a point and sheds my skin
 Shakes off the weight of my sins
 And takes me to Heaven
 And if I've lost you for good
 Could there have been any other way?
 Was the water filling up for years
 Or did I wreck it all in a day?
 I'm going to bed now
 I've sunk into my sorrows
 And it'll take three hundred million dollars
 To get me up tomorrow
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 I won't go down with this shit
 I will put my hands up and surrender
 There will be no more flags above my door
 I have lost and always will be
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 It was an expensive mistake
 It was an expensive mistake
 My horse broke his back to get me here
 I have his blood on my hands for no reason
 But what was I supposed to do?
 How was I supposed to know how to use a tube amp?
 How was I supposed to know how to drive a van?
 How was I supposed to know how to ride a bike without hurting myself?
 How was I supposed to know how to make dinner for myself?
 How was I supposed to know how to hold a job?
 How was I supposed to remember to grab my backpack
 After I set it down to play basketball?
 How was I supposed to know how to not get drunk
 Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and why not Sunday?
 How was I supposed to know how steer this ship?
 How the hell was I supposed to steer this ship?
 It was an expensive mistake
 You can't say you're sorry and it's over
 I was given a body that is falling apart
 My house is falling apart
 I was given a mind that can't control itself
 I was given a ship that can't steer itself (and what about a vacation?)
 What about a vacation to feel good?
 My horse broke his back and left me here
 How was I supposed to know?
 And God won't forgive me
 And you won't forgive me
 Not unless I open up my heart
 And how am I supposed to do that
 When I go to this same room every night?
 Sleep in the same bed every night
 Same fucking bed
 With the red comforter, with the white stripes
 And the yellow ceiling light makes me feel like I'm dying
 This sea is too familiar
 How many nights have I drowned here?
 How many times have I drowned?
 I give up
 I give up
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 Let us take you back to where we came in
 We were united, an undivided nation
 We got divided, it was something inside us
 It was not us
 We were so naive, we were just like animals
 Told what to believe by the beasts who took control
 We wanted control too, but that was normal
 'Cause our life was one of survival
 The decisions we've made, if you can call it deciding
 With your life on the line
 It'd be social suicide to change your mind
 So we got mad and we split the scene
 Now we download all of our shit for free
 It's the new economy
 We have nothing to offer and we sleep on trash
 I give up
 I give up
 Let us take you back to where you came in
 A man clinging to the cliff of revelation
 So scared of what he would find, he started crying
 "It was not me"
 Stopped at the borderline, they stripped his disguise
 So he read a book that won a Pulitzer prize
 It was about death, it didn't help
 He saw himself in it
 He was disturbed at the conclusions that it led to
 But he couldn't say what because the author was dead too
 And so though he made fun of us
 He has now become one of us
 I give up
 I give up
 I give up
 I give up
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 I give up
 I give up
 I give up
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 And you wake up trembling
 From a dream where I swam into the river
 I reach out and hold you in my arms
 I love you, I love you, I love you