7 12'S

Just recieved my diploma I Took a job up in Oklahoma Working shutdowns for Fluid Daniels It was work I was sure I could handle And I fell in with this dude named Joe Joe said he was thirty-five years old But I swear he looked just like living hell A result of too many seven twelves I started working myself to death Started working myself to death Working days without rest I was working myself to death Well old Joe showed me all the ropes How to work all day on just a little bit of dope We'd stay up and we party all night We made it back to work just in time Well I was making more money than I could spend Making twenty bucks an hour counting per diem And I was staying up for days without rest And I never busted one single random piss test Cause I'm working myself to death I'm working myself to death Working days without rest I'm working myself to death I was a young man seeing many different towns Yeah I always had me a party hanging around Making lots of money life was so easy for me to cope Then Joe taught me how to cook my own dope Then one year started feeling just like ten Taking more and more candy to make me spin Getting deep dark circles around my eyes I was losing the grip on my life An I was working myself to death I was working myself to death Working days without rest I was working myself to death And I just turned twenty-five last week And I'm running on a three day tweak Got the truck loaded up and I'm on the move Gotta catch a shutdown just north of Baton Rouge And I just crossed that Louisiana line And I'm crashing down from my high Yeah both my eyes are getting very heavy And it's hard to hold this old Chevy steady I swerved across a broken white line Swerved head-on into a semi Now I'm spiralling down to Hell Yeah I hope they don't work me seven twelve's