The Last Ten Years - Mark Eitzel

The ferryman

Who takes me to my rest

He don’t give a damn

Who’s cursed or blessed

Anyway, I give him all my cash

I’m like some tragic hero

A lightning flash

Followed by a million zeros

I spent the last ten years, yeah

Trying to waste half an hour

Every drunk is that VIP

Who only lives inside a rope

Where they show you all the love

Make mine a bourbon and coke

I’m not lying, Mr. Ferryman

I always make it home

Though my house is built on sand

It ain’t worth the loan

I spent the last ten years, yeah

Trying to waste half an hour

So I had that real good time

And then in the dawn

I saw the bartender’s love

I saw it in a yawn

Mr. Ferryman

Do you party where you’re from?

Do you know where to go

When the party’s all done?

I never been to hell

But they got my number

I feel them squirm inside my shell

Praying for slumber

It must suck, Mr. Ferryman

To hear the vanities talk

About the lies they need

Just to walk the walk

I spent the last ten years, yeah

Trying to waste half an hour

I spent the last ten years, yeah

Trying to waste half an hour