Epicurus

[Verse]

Life can be good

And we can make it so

Just lick your finger, put it in a little bag

The stuff inside's like salt

Rub it into your young gums

Feel the familiar gut-punch of fun

And watch it blow out the holes in your eyes

The white sun, it's a strobe light

Look around you

They're doing what you do

Drying moistened palms on thighs

Stand in softened shoes

Perpetually weak at the knees

Artificially eager to please

I don't mind if you steal my keys

Long as I can sleep at yours

And then you wake up

A deep and singular misery calls to me

The words it says to me are these

[Chorus]

Oh I'm a shadow, a shell of my former self

But I had a great time last night

I lost all sense of it all but I ain't hitting the wall

If I'm wrong I don't wanna be right

See there's some deficiency in me

Of vitamin E and way out of lines

But I'm a Class A act, don't you know

And you've fallen behind

[Verse]

It comes over you like a soft typhoon

And if you really put your soul into it

You can really feel the moon

It comes in in the rain

And it leaves with a warm wave

It puts you in mind for throwing shapes

Going apeshit at a rave

And then you wake up

That deep and singular misery calls to me

Keeps saying these words to me

[Chorus]

Oh I'm a shadow, a shell of my former self

But I had a great time last night

I lost all sense of it all but I ain't hitting the wall

If I'm wrong I don't wanna be right

See there's some deficiency in me

Of vitamin E and way out of lines

But I'm a Class A act, don't you know

[Verse]

I'm like Epicurus in a torture chamber

Like a man of virtue in a vice

How Croesus feels in a cut-price ghetto

Even then I'm trying to be nice

I didn't come out a womb to boil alive in a dark room

This guy can open his eyes

And I'm sweating like the walls

I outta go outside

[Outro]

Life can be good

Life can be good