Overstayer Lyrics - From Parts Unknown - Every Time I Die

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 of earth 

The song, the dance 

Yeah, I should have gone with it 

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 don't look the same 

When no road has been paved go up 

Go up 

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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 

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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 a