WISHING YOUR LIFE AWAY


Locked up, banged up,

Can’t think for yourself

Twenty-four hours in a ten foot cell

Rights of a prisoner,

Needs of a dog

Stare at a ceiling,

Make your peace with God



Night falls, my heart calls

Hours turn to days

Daybreak heartache,

Looking down in disbelief



I see myself

It can’t be me wishing your life away,

Pray that tomorrow comes

Cry your tears today,

Yesterday will never come, well, well...



Backed up, jacked up,

It’s worse than you think

Thirty long days for one little drink

No hand on the wheel,

No foot on the floor

Just walls and a ceiling

And a slamming of a cell door



Lights out, the night shout

The days drag on and on

Day breaks my heart aches

No way out there’s no escape

I think this time I’m going crazy

Wishing your life away

Pray that tomorrow comes

Cry your tears today

Yesterday is dead and gone