I just need a minute for myself

I just need a minute for my health

I need the kind of doctor who works at a bar

And keeps his medicine on the top shelf

I said excuse me, make me this deal

Just leave the bottle

I'll make it tonight's meal

There's a beast in my belly

And I'm trying to drown the motherfucker

So just hit me again

Can I just get another little minute here please?

(You don't get to choose to be or not to be it's up to me)

And now you're quoting Shakesperean soliloquy? Puh-lease

(You can never outrun the beast, get on your knees)

That's a pretty bit of tyranny

It's hurting my ability

To follow my proclivities

So can I get a little less hostility please? Yeah

Remember when your life was easy?

It must have been way back when

Remember when?

I just need a minute for myself

I just need a minute for my health

I'm drinking spirits drunk with a mean drunk spirit

You see this empty cup? All the fucks I give are in it

You know, where did it all go so

Clusterfuck, twisted up, emotional?

I'm both a beast and a burden again

I've got my own blood on my own hands

Remember when your life was easy?

It must have been way back when

Remember when? Remember when?

Remember when your life was easy?

It must have been way back when

Remember when? Remember when?

Don't matter if it's how much money made

Or how many eyebrows raised

Or how many things you gave

When you're approaching middle age

The impossible notion of numbered days

Is brazen, emblazoned upon your face

But finding better ways at this stage

Is a blatant waste of the remaining days

I'm stuck in my ways

And probably won't change

So for the sake of saving face

Can we skip to the place

Where I'm over the hate and shame

We never speak of it again

Except for this moment of fame

That I cling to insanely

And I wait, and I wait, and I wait

And I wait, and I wait

And I have faith

But the smile on my face is fake

Don't mistake my distaste

As a punishment for some error that you made

'Cos it isn't the case

This hatred hails from a darker place

It's a rage that comes in waves

And stays for days and days

With no escape and no amazing grace

Wraiths make an alien invasion of my space

Time to erase the disgraceful way

I relate to my mistakes

And my bad breaks

And my head aches

With the weight of the shame

And the pain in my wake

'Cos nothing is gonna change my ways

Nothing is gonna change my ways

It's way too late

It's way too late

Remember when your life was easy?

It must have been way back when

Remember when? Remember when?

Remember when your life was easy?

It must have been way back when

Remember when? Remember when?

And can I get a little less hostility please?

And can I get a little less hostility please?

Can I get a little less hostility please?

And can I get a little less hostility?