Runnin' to a hole like a

bootlegging mouse in a roadside mountain hotel

Well the cats in the corner got the guns and

the speed but they're too young to know how to sell

Flags are flying high in the eastern

sky where the roads are all covered in sin

Now I'm yelling at you like a banshee with blood all over my shins

The only way to live is to love again or just burn out in love's flame

Music and words will kill me or save me once again

Spendin' money like a rich kid, drinkin' like a camel's hump

Lovin' you like a dead man or a writer stuck in a slump

Well I wrote this song on the back

of a bag that once held a bottle of gin

Now you gamble somewhere between

heaven and hell waiting to cash it all in

The only way to live is to love again or just burn out in love's flame

Music and words will kill me or save me once again

Now I can't stand up and you won't sit down

And everything about you is turned up way too loud

Come on and dance like the devil is the

leader of a country that is ruled by the wealthy few

And the armies of the angels got their rifles pointed at you

And they're comin' down to show you the truth

Are you tired of all the politics or just blind to all the lunatics?

Mice are small when you they live in a

hole but they're huge when they live in a hall

The only way to live is to love again or just burn out in love's flame

Music and words will kill me or save me once again

Music and words will kill me or save me once again

Music and words will kill me or save me once again