Lyrics Every Time I Die – Overstayer

I should have drown in the flood with the rest
I had the chance
The current was pitiless
And proof of man was wiped from the face off the earth, the song, the dance

Alas, alas

I’m stranded alone in the wake
Now I have lost all sight of the grave
When did I ever say that I want to be saved?
I can see for miles but it doesn’t look the same
When no road has been paved,

Go up
Go up
Go up
Go up

Now how am I gonna get down?

I want a slow death wrought from the dregs
«I want to be sedated’
Just like joey said.
I want the heaviest heart

I have eaten my weight in gold
I can see only what I’m shown up here
But in the coals with common men who yearn for ordinary things love cannot find us

So get out of my way
I got out of my own way
Better a tramp, than a captive
Better alone than lonely with all these «friends»

What in the fuck am I doing here?
Why did the rapture not take me in?
It is my curse to carry on.

I should have died when I was young
I should still be burning lung
If i had known what I’d become

I should have drown in the flood with the rest
I had the chance,
But here I am.