Narrow Margins

I can't live this way
 Breaking all my rules again
 Choking on my gin
 You push till I give in
 Till the loser always wins
 Somehow with his beckoning
 Bruising with his threats
 Confusing what he says
 But I won't live that way
 Though I kinda want to anyway
 Kinda want to play
 With the pretty and the pure
 When I return to the earth
 I return to the dust
 No more beauty by the pound
 In this I do not trust
 Cause nothing forgives
 these rules and narrow margins
 and I lied
 It's rules and narrow margins
 I must live by
 I can't find the time
 I don't own a future
 I couldn't bring that past back
 I waste what little time I have
 But I swear I almost touched it
 Yet it slipped between my fingers
 Sent shivers down my spine
 Like a splinter in my mind
 But it wasn't nothing, again
 These rules and narrow margins
 and I lied
 It's rules and narrow margins
 that I must live by
 Rules and narrow margins
 Rules and narrow margins
 that I must live by