Dave Is Done

Well, it turned out
Like they said it would
Seems I gotta live while I die
And deal with it
The healthy people
So dramatic about it
It's just a bit of emptiness
Sometimes

Well, sorry that you've gotta see it
You don't need it
And I was hopin' I could stick around
Maybe see what an older you looks like

Gauze on the skin again
Feelin' face down
Bowl of drugs, I'm in love and I'm strugglin'
To believe you understand it

Ain't what I was bettin' on
Down here with the sick and old
I see 'em come and I see 'em go
Got a number in the line to the angel in the common room

I see your lifeline drowned in tension
A painful truth
Nothing to give when every day you lose
Peace, my friend, oh-oh

Now would I feel to be young again?
Would I've seen what I was standin' on?
I wrestle with that, like I buried it
And did I get a hit when I was playin' that guitar in '73?
Or was that a fairytale
That I've been tellin' to the orderlies?

Well, we're rollin' now
Guess I'll never know
I want to thank you for your time
My regards, talk soon

I see your lifeline drowned in tension
A painful truth
Nowhere to stay when you can't afford to move
Peace, my friend, ah
Peace with you, ah

We paint the walls in a burnin' building
We paint the walls in a burnin' building
We pretend, pretend
That it lasts forever