Easy Way / Hard Way - City Of Ships

Early light

Lost behind greys and whites

Morning chill got colder still

All the weight of a life of excess

Baring down on buckling knees

We’re broke;

she’s the measure of success

We really are dying by degrees

Then out of nowhere surrounded on all sides

Before we had time to realize

90th precinct shakedown

Easiest way to feel love in this town

Got a new cell mate

Heard him out

Why is it the addicts are the only ones

Who’ve got it figured out?

He talked at me for hours

Left nothing unsaid, he covered it all

In the midst of a massive coke comedown

I may as well have been a brick wall

Lessons learned that day:

In cold blood Courtney killed Kurt

Keeping sex on the internet protects a man from getting hurt

Sell food up on grand street, put the kids through school

Might be missing a few teeth, but I’m nobody’s fool