johnnythsaint

Same Old Rut

Singin' the same sad, sad songs
Sayin' all the same so longs
Diggin' holes and spinnin' my wheels
Makin' and breakin' the same old deals
I've got the sense I'm losin' time
There's too many things I've left behind
Stood and watched too many doors shut
Wastin' years in this same damn rut

I've got nothin' to prove
And not much more to lose
All my sins have been confessed
Time to pull out of this mess

Two steps forward, three steps back
I'm movin' this train to a brand new track
One of these days I'm movin' on
Don't look for me 'cause I'll be gone
I've got the sense I'm losin' time
Nothin' left to leave behind
On through this door before it's shut
I'm diggin' my own way out of this rut

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I love it when a song comes together this easily. I wrote this in about 8 minutes after one of the guitarists in my band played a basic version of the verse and chorus for us at practice one night. It's currently my favorite song we play, followed closely by the song that was our newest until this one came together. The other one is based on my troubles with insomnia and general feeling of hate and anger towards the world, which is of course, thoroughly boosted by all those nights of two or three hours of sleep before jumping out of bed again to get back to another day of the same old shit. I guess that one's not quite as optimistic as this one, huh? Here, see for yourself, it's called A Good Night's Sleep

Woke up this morning with my brain
Pounding right out of my skull
Woke up with a hate for the whole world
Cranked right up to full
Hard to get to sleep
Knowin' I'll wake up in the same fuckin' place
Tough to look in the mirror
When you wanna put a fist through every goddamn face

How do you get a good night's rest
When you've never known peace?
How do you come to grips with being
Another germ in the human disease?
How do you get a good night's rest
When you've never known peace?
How do you get through life
When you can't find a moment's release?

Went to bed last night
With blood stained sheets and a hate stained heart
Went to sleep knowin'
Wakin' up is just another day to start
Hard to get outta bed
When you got two hours escape from the world
Can't look forward to anything
'Cause you'll never escape this world