When All Else Fails
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Never know the raptures of the never knowing
In the buildings where the innocent go.
With my head in the clouds, and my feet in the mud,
I'm bound to keep still or at least go slow. Yeah!
Remember nothing and nothing will remember you
For everything is to find the prize.
There is no way for the winner to sin in his eyes,
And I'm left to be underminded in such demise. Yeah!
Chorus:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When all else fails
When everything is never enough.
Nicky ain't got nothing,
No, he aint got no stuff.
(Never nothing. No, never enough, never enough.)
Ran about and riddled with the stupid kids
In the courtyard of my God's castle.
When I whine to the elders about my skinned knee
I see that I'm nothing more than a hastle. Yeah!
When the mutes cry out in our dumb downed tongue
The blind see the colors of redemption.
No, I've never seen the visions of the blind
Or spoke such words of communication.
Chorus:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When all else fails.
When I go down to fish my soul out.
The sinker pulls me closer,
And the lips of God speak doubt.
Bridge:
I can remember when I could fly.
When my bones would bend.
There's nothing but God to kill me,
Once my ribs soon mend.
Abandon my thoughts underneath
A cracked, frosted shot glass.
Three, two and one they go,
Now pull the trigger on my sorry ass.