Sing For My Supper

[Verse 1]

They're selling it hard, models with guitars

Sex and drugs and violence

They took down the one by my house

But there's still one on Highland

Lay my life under my knife

Confess 'til I'm big as the fakers

But by spring, some shiny new thing

Will be taking its place in the paper

[Chorus]

Learn to live, to subsist

In hope I look nice when I suffer

Pray for rain, dance for change

Beg for chances to sing for my supper

[Verse 2]

Come on, let her speak, she's heroin chic

Lips as the real as the words in her mouth

Cool Jesus smokes and buy Diet Coke

If you lived here, you'd be home by now

I've lived this too long, you can't just try it on

Though you do, and they clap when you pass by the car

But I am the oracle, genuine article

You'll never be who you pretend you are

[Chorus]

Learn to live, to subsist

In hope I look nice when I suffer

Pray for rain, dance for change

Beg for chances to sing for my supper

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

[Outro]

The end of the thread, the gun to your head

Thanking God that you'll get judged today

Your blood on the street, your ex on TV

What a privilege to die in LA