Dark Days

The truth was sold, that's where the trail goes cold My shoulders shudder at the thought Of puffing my chest out as I walk home alone Under the arches, there's this bloke With a carboot full of stolen phones Knock-off cologne and mink carcasses "They're mint condition from Selfridges, mate" I see arsonists with business rates Sketched on the back of empty matchboxes and Police offers getting their truncheons polished off in the bushes Wondering what all the fuss is about and what I'm looking at But if looks could kill, my vacant gaze wouldn't even pierce the skin I'm not lazy, I mean it's just something I've no interested in, mate Least when I meet my maker, then I'll embrace all my mistakes As I descend into the bowels of hell with a shit-eating grin on my face Dark days It's a neverending cycle of abuse Dark days I have the blues and I can't shake them loose Dark days I have the blues and I can't shake them loose Dark days It's a neverending cycle of abuse Was skeptic to how the media had depicted ya Though getting to know ya better, we clicked and so we stuck together Turning the corner of the burning cenotaph when those copper's clocked us Stopped us and shook us up and down With no grounds to and no due process They started discussin' whether to let us off for doing nothin' or Maybe pop us for looking like we might be hiding something But then the radio buzzed in "They caught carboot man with the lot" Thank fuck I bought you enough time not to get shot Dark days It's a neverending cycle of abuse Dark days I have the blues and I can't shake them loose Dark days I have the blues and I can't shake them loose Dark days It's a neverending cycle of abuse Dark days It's a neverending cycle of abuse Dark days I have the blues and I can't shake them loose Dark days I have the blues and I can't shake them loose Dark days It's a neverending cycle of abuse My best ideas are borrowed, but they're never half-baked They're hard to swallow, I'm an acquired taste And if you wanna climb the ladder of success on judgement day Take my advice and reinvent the real completely Believe me Dark days Dark days Dark days Dark days