Wastin'

You live on the sunnyside

Where the stars don't shine

You're drunk and twisted

So fuckin' wasted

You're from the emerald Isle

You'd swear you swam the nile

I know you need your life

But it's a waste of time



After so many years

Of automatic jeers

And covering up of tears

With your synthetic cheer

You paved the boulevard

With good intentions

In your forever search

For bar extensions



If this is healthy

If this will save me

Bring me to safety

i'll start behavin'

I know you need your life

But it's a waste of time

Stop me wastin' away



And there's his trophy kept

A dusty cabinet

He'll raise a can to it

He won't let time forget

The ink surrounds the scars that

He's collected in bars

Time has let him forget

This man's a walking wreck



If this is healthy

If this will save me

Bring me to safety

i'll start behavin'

I know you see my life

As just a waste of time

Stop me wastin'



If this is healthy

If this will save me

Bring me to safety

i'll start behavin'

I know you need your life

But it's a waste of time

Stop me wastin' away



And on the walls inside

Pictures of all the lives

That have been pushed aside

A country's suicide

No one believes the smiles

You force on shopping aisles

Who knows what's on their files

From your nights on the tiles



And at the moment you fall through the door wasted

She's in her corner while you vomit on the pavement

Tonight the superstar's thrown his towel in

So what about his life? Alleged waste of time



If this is healthy

If this will save me

Bring me to safety

i'll start behavin'

I know you need your life

But it's a waste of time

Stop me wastin' away