Like a Record Player

I'm like a record player

I keep going 'round

With the needle in my arm

Making someone else's sound

And lately I've been dreaming

Of blue and empty skies

But nothing like that

Ever crosses red and weary eyes

I've been traveling with bottles

I'm working close with cans

I'm sitting up for hours with my best friends in a van

And they say that this ain't living

But I don't know what they mean

'Cause I don't feel dead

And baby you look alive to me

It's the only game that I know how to play

The time, the time to say goodbye

Has passed us long ago

And I would say I've overstayed

My welcome but you know

I don't think I'm ever going home

I don't need a doctor

'Cause anyone can see

That I've had all of these shots

But lord I'm still as sick as I can be

I need to rest my eyes so baby come with me

Lay down here beside me keep me warm while I sleep

'Cause there's trouble on the way

Huh! You best believe

There always is don't worry

Sit and have a drink with me

When we go all we've got is these days that we've made

And I don't want to waste them being wistful or afraid

Without all of you I'd be even lower down

You know what I want to say but I can't get it out

The time, the time to say goodbye

Has passed us long ago

And I would say we've overstayed

Our welcome but you know

I don't think we're ever going home