[Verse 1] Up for two weeks Stopped at a triplex Sitting in the shadows Of the Economy Inn Ten minutes inside Then the whole door shook Loud banging POLICE! And this dude Just calmly walked To let 'em in Had one second Before that door opened Tossed my pistol Underneath his mattress Hands behind my back Sitting there in cuffs Watching him carry All my bags Out to the cops Good thing He didn't know What I put Under where he slept [Verse 2] Cop started going Through everything I owned What's this cloth mask? Old book cover I'm turning it Into a satchel He looked at me That doesn't make A lot of sense Yeah I do meth Most of what I do Doesn't even Make sense to me Then the bolt cutters Hatchet Army shovel Why you carrying All this shit? I live in the riverbed How the fuck else Am I supposed To set up camp? [Pre-Chorus] Then he stopped Looking through my bags Stopped asking What belonged to who Looked directly at me And asked the only question I didn't have An answer for [Chorus] Why do you live this way? I broke down Right there Said I'm trapped I don't see Another way This shit sucks I don't wanna Live like this I wish I knew How to change Why do you live this way? For everything I could explain That was the one question I couldn't Talk away [Verse 3] Then he found The sharps container What's in here? Oh You don't wanna Touch those Contaminated With hep C I'm taking those To a pharmacy The ones Inside the black case Those ones Belong to me Somehow every answer Kept another door From closing Till they took me To the jail Cited and released me And I walked Back outside [Chorus] Why do you live this way? I'm trapped I don't see Another way I can explain Every strange thing Inside these bags But I can't explain How my whole life Got this way Why do you live this way? I told him I wanted change Then they opened up The fucking door And I walked Right back The same way [Verse 4] Eventually I circled back Waited for darkness To speak Moved through the shadows Behind the Economy Inn Down the alley To the triplex Knocked on the door And there he was Look on his face When he saw me How the fuck Are you here? Motherfucker They caught me With nothing concrete [Verse 5] Walked him Back toward his room Reached underneath His mattress Pulled out What I'd left behind And he dropped Onto his knees Started begging I laughed You know You just proved You're guilty Hit him in the face Then stood there Looking down Everything in me That brought me back there Suddenly Had nowhere Left to go [Bridge] Hope you remember This day Because this is the day I realized I'm not willing To make you pay In that way Hours earlier I was crying Telling a cop I was trapped Now I'm holding The reason I might never Make it back [Final Chorus] Why do you live this way? Maybe I still Couldn't say Didn't suddenly Become somebody else Didn't magically Know the way Why do you live this way? That question Followed me all day Till I finally found One thing I wasn't willing To become And sometimes That's where Change begins [Outro] Snuck back Into the riverbed Back inside The cave Dug a hole Deep in the dirt Buried the gun And covered it Sat there With that question Why do you Live this way? Still didn't know How to get out But that night I decided I needed To find a way
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