Punch Drunk

[Verse 1]

Way in overhead

Caught off guard by the gutter

Everybody's spending this time just building and making

Someday someone will say, "For what?"

[Verse 2]

Nine to five in a blind alley

Equals three sheets to the wind

Can't remember when this started

Don't know where that it ends

[Chorus]

And there's never a dull day

When you're beaten by nonfiction

If God still reads the headlines

Front page hope is missing

[Verse 3]

Working away on a rebuilt freeway

Straight away from the slash and burn cities

Hindsight is there

On a road sign pointed nowhere

[Verse 4]

No one gets off here

No way to slow down

There's peace of mind somewhere

Whenever someone ever thinks about it

[Chorus]

And there's never a dull day

When you're beaten by nonfiction

If God still reads the headlines

We're all listening

[Verse 5]

For every drop of sweat that it takes

To speak out and wonder

Knowing how or when to duck next

Just sitting here punch drunk, all the wiser

[Instrumental Outro]