The Gateway Lyrics

You tell yourself you'll get rich working overtime
The years dragon, you find that you're not satisfied
Your habit's back, you've got demands on your time

You never worked that hard
Driving the getaway car

You're risk averse, at first this feels like suicide
But you don't like being dopesick all the time
You hold your breath and you hold the line

You never worked that hard
Driving the getaway car
Pretty soon it will catch up to you
In love with a needle and spoon

You think you rue the night
And it's messing up your life
Better get yourself together
A little further down the line
You think you rue the night
And it's messing up your life
The way you talk to strangers
You'll be dead before the light

Back at home they're talking about you all the time
They're telling stories as if it were out of true crime
Your desperate living is somehow glamorized

But they never cared about you
And they got nothing better to do