Quick Sand

It's a new year, my resolution to be sober

From what, I cannot disclose

You say "Me too!", and I guess we're better off apart

Then why can't we stop takin' off our clothes?

I feel healthy and well, but then you're back around

and I get so sick in the heart

Then I lay myself down on the examination table

Won't you be a doctor and pick me apart?

We do a lot of talking with our eyes, but then again, that's not talking at all (X2)

I don't always wanna be so hard!

But even when you're next to me, you're still so far!

It's the same you, same tricks, same performer,

Do you ever wanna be off the shelf?

Shooting looks at women like it's from a glass, 

But oh, you never feel the fire, I can tell

Man child, midnight rider, then we pull some overnighters, 

And I forget everything I know

Cause for the time bein', you make me your woman, and you always seem to catch me when I'm stoned!

We do a lot of talking with our eyes, but then again, that's not talking at all (X2)

I don't always wanna be so hard!

But even when you're next to me, you're still so far!

The quicksand will swallow us one way or another, so why can't I get what I want? (x3)

The quicksand will swallow us!

(spoken)

I have artwork on my walls,

They're all ladies, who dance, and read, and fuck,

My million dollar babies, my lovers,

They saw what you would do to me under the covers,

I told them "I'm sick!", but with what wasn't clear,

I could almost hear them whispering in my ear,

I'd say 'My teeth are rotting! I feel the bugs under my tongue! 

But oh, he fills the space, and I make him feel young!"

The ladies knew something I didn't,

But they were just paper on the wall

And all they could do was witness...