I was stoned in a factory

Working an industrial slicer

Wondering to myself if life could be anything nicer

Inching step by step

Towards the Great American Death

I was dreaming 'bout asbestos as best as I can guess

I was itching to confess at the rural Festivus

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

You're gonna have to speak up 'cause I can’t hear it

Well, the tree grew a branch

The branch grew Davidians

Most of them died

In the land of comedians

Turns out your mother

Was part of the Slytherin faction

It’s alright that you didn’t know

She never saw that much of the action

Wеll, there's promise in thе morning

And power in the blood

Folks drink it for the feeling

I just drink it because

I do what John Denver tells me

I wanna do right, in case anyone fail me

Let it be me and only me

Let it be me and only me

Let it be me and only me

Who fails me

Who fails me

I was a tombstone tragedy working out the kinks in Wisconsin

In a monastery asking the saints if they come here often

In a van with all of my friends

Where the party never ends

The liquors always quicker

I cheat to feel the drums

Pounding in my head and in my heart and in my thumbs

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Set the bar so low

That I can clear it

Well, the clearer the mirror

The more of the horror

There's gore on the shore

Of Sodom and Gomorrah

There's something endearing

About the fear of anything queer here

I've seen a lotta folks fold into a mold

Of something that they couldn’t steer clear of

Well, there's promise in the morning

And power in the blood

Folks drink it for the feeling

I just drink it because

I do what John Denver tells me

I wanna do right in case anyone fails me

Let it be me and only me

Let it be me and only me

Let it be me and only me

Who fails me

Who fails me

Hey guys, wussup?

I always knew I was gonna seem basic

In the Dagobah system asking folks if they've seen my spaceship

All the Buddhists priests and the Taoist monks

Couldn’t have stopped me from being a punk

In a Ford Explorer with a tape recorder

Beating down your door with an eating disorder

Father Time and Mother Nature

Why am I of such small stature?

All I ever wanted was to die young

But I didn’t have the guts

And songs needed sung

If I could wake up without this feeling

I'd know I was healing

But every morning when I wake up

I just know that it ain't enough

Well there's promise in the mornin'

And power in the blood

Folks drink it for the feelin'

I just drink it because

I do what John Denver tells me

I wanna do right in case anyone fails me

Let it be me and only me

Let it be me and only me

Let it be me and only me

Who fails me

Who fails me