The Distance

Bloodstains On fake pictures And it comes in waves As the shouts turn into whispers Thoughts keep running through her brain Make the pounding in her heart be quicker Says it all comes down to the run around And as the book slips in her fingers Says I don't really think the drugs they've got can Pull it off So I'm gonna sell my blood To a man I met in Simon's rock He's got a plan To put me in a diamond top And make a grand plain geriatric clam nostalgia rock Shake into the car Breaks in the door Makes out 25 layin' on the floor All prayin' to the lord But the prayin's ignored Sayin' that they shoulda been prayin' before any war Awoke that night to the rains, the nuclear warnin' And she said Oh my souls gotten cold and lost And I'm throwin' it off Oh won't you go make the most of a bad existence Cause you're so Much colder than she ever planned to live with She says Everybody knows the difference Between right to try And life and lies And if you Go the distance Go the distance I fall behind 18 With a sex addiction And he states his dreams And readin' online erotica fiction And counts the places he ain't been About relationships envisioned Tabs tomorrow nights been a long time coming If they'd have only listened Shakin' in the night Wakes and he writes 25 ways you could waste your life Says he takes what he likes Breaks with the line(?) Makes for Boston with his fate decided Says he prays that every thought's been pre-assigned to him Causes its planned in and Oh my souls gotten cold and lost And I'm throwin' it off Oh won't you go make the most of a bad existence Cause you're so Much colder than she ever planned to live with And she says Everybody's got commitments Between right to try And life and lives And if you Go the distance Go the distance I'll fall behind I fall behind