The High Life

It seemed like such a good idea

Stake your claim, boys, you can make it here

But now we're down in the mud

The quick and not quick enough are both bleeding

And, yeah, tomorrow's long gone

Sold for a song that I'm stealing

And we can light a fire, now, with all that's left to burn

And warm our hands on failed plans, and new leaves left unturned

In the high life

The high life

The high life

The high life

Look around, now, tell me all's not lost

Take the coin, boys, from where your heart once was

And now heaven is lying empty

And all the devil's here

And we can drink our bellies full, but never quench the thirst

And we can burn the spinning wheels, but when you're cursed, you're cursed

With a taste

For the high life

The high life

The high life

The high life

(High life)

Shut up all my life, I've been hearing the voices (high life)

Of the silver spoon, of the perfect smile, of your gilded lives (high life)

I know, now, in your veins there will only be blue blood (high life)

Come on, cut me now you will find that I bleed the blackest bile (high life)

(High life)

I know, now, none of your kind is ever on my side (high life)

So the rich stay the rich, and the rest forever be denied (high life)

The high life