Paved

[Verse] in my ecosystem greenbacks nearly extinct... I've hustled, lied, and cheated till I was made to bleed... turns out when you try to dig... yourself out... well the hole... keeps getting deeper... [instrumental solo] I don't blame you for leaving... truth is I can't you were smart enough to jump ship... leaving behind this rat... still wandering my maze don't think I'll ever find my way... [instrumental] [chorus] whole damn life lived crooked led me straight... too where I am with nothing only my muddy name... no sense in hoping... wasting my breath too pray... I followed the road...... which I myself have paved [instrumental solo] [Verse] had so many chances to get out get free... opportunities you offered... I spurned and threw away... the faults all on my shoulders God it's a heavy weight... but the heaviest of all is that I pushed you too leave [spoken] and leave you did. [instrumental solo] pathetic and broken... held together with duct tape aimlessly I ramble... hand to mouth day to day with all the time in the world... in which too ruminate on the extent of my failures... a personal hell that tortures my brain only thing that keeps me living... is that my death would cause you pain [instrumental] [chorus] whole damn life lived crooked led me straight... too where I am with nothing only my muddy name... no sense in hoping... wasting my breath too pray... I followed the road...... which I myself have paved [instrumental solo] [bridge] some nights I dream of changing getting back on my feet but I dream right through my alarm so by the time I awake it's already too late..... I think it's always been too late [instrumental] [chorus] whole damn life lived crooked led me straight... too where I am with nothing only my muddy name... no sense in hoping... wasting my breath too pray... I followed the road...... which I myself have paved [instrumental solo]