Well, you'll never see me dying On screen or microscope I'll be the first to laugh it off To not be the brunt of your joke Let me make a mistake It'll pay for its own cost 'Cause regret is like an infant That won't let you sleep it off Checking in to a hospital Where the nurse is earth and sky Fighting against my flesh and blood There's nothing I won't try Even heartache looks so easy To a pair of grieving eyes I am always one man down I am always one man down And dressed up I am an antenna A feeding tube and a hard drive Entertaining myself to death To maintain some sort of life Staring up at a concrete roof thinking It could fall any minute The fault line can't be reasoned with No matter what the house has in it Checking in to a hospital Where the nurse is church and state The cure has got that oxygen We're all looking to taste With the face lines of a moth's wings I want more time to waste I am always one man down I am always one man down And dressed up If my mind's an orphanage You're not in the market to mind Living like this is Just no way to die Put it in terms I can understand This wound is all I've got But I can't disconnect my hand From the damage that it's brought Well, the straight face on this cruel place It just won't crack or break And I am always one man down I am always one man down And fed up