Downhill Both Ways

Sitting on the curb with my greatest fear

Outside the discount tobacco and beer

Thought if I dove, it would get more clear

But it's all brown

Half of my friends got a foot in the soil

Ball point pen and aluminum foil

Shuffling off this ol' mortal coil

Just to get out

So if you wanna hop in, I'll give you a ride

God, I'd really love if you would make it tonight

I'll try to pick you up around four or five and go downtown

Called it a miracle

Now you're learnin' what a living means

When everybody's as miserable like you

Don't wanna be cynical anymore

Think I'd rather stay asleep

Everyone's miserable like me

Brother, if you wanna, we can split our cash

For a little fresh tar and fiberglass

Shootin' the moon about death and tax and gasoline

When I give you a promise just to prove it's a con

Tryin' to be honest, I'm gonna get gone

In bed with my runnin' shoes on and chasing a bad dream down

Could have been anything

There's nothing that I'm gonna stay

You change and then you change back

You could be any way you choose

What's the matter when it looks the same

Goin' out and goin' back?

Now it's downhill both ways