Well, you'll never see me dying

On screen or microscope

I'll be the first to laugh it off

To not be the brunt of your joke

Let me make a mistake

It'll pay for its own cost

'Cause regret is like an infant

That won't let you sleep it off

Checking into a hospital

Where the nurse is earth and sky

Fighting against my flesh and blood

There's nothing I won't try

Even heartache looks so easy

To a pair of grieving eyes

I am always one man down

I am always one man down

And dressed up

I am an antenna

A feeding tube and a hard drive

Entertaining myself to death

To maintain some sort of life

Staring up at a concrete roof thinking

It could fall any minute

The fault line can't be reasoned with

No matter what the house has in it

Checking into a hospital

Where the nurse is church and state

The cure has got that oxygen

We're all looking to taste

With the face lines

Of a moth's wings

I want more time to waste

I am always one man down

I am always one man down

And dressed up, up, up, up

And dressed up (little dressed up right there)

Dressed up

Mmm, dressed up

If my mind's an orphanage

You're not in the market to mind

But livin' like this is

Just no way to die

Put it in terms I can understand

This wound is all I've got

But I can't disconnect my hand

From the damage that it's brought

Well, the straight face on this cruel place

It just won't crack or break

But I am always one man down

I am always one man down

And fed up