People II 2: Still Peoplin'

If you've been kicked in or abused or mistreated or misused You are told there is nowhere to go but up for you If you've been hurt or you've been betrayed Or you've been fucked or you've been displaced You are told it was probably your fault anyway But when your Hustler subscription and your Xanax prescriptions Make you feel lonelier instead You don't want to hear about all those starving children You don't want to be told it's all in your head Cause if it's all in your head, that's terrible I saw a junkie lying in a puddle of his own blood last week I saw a cyclist get hit by a car I saw a homeless guy chug a bottle of mouthwash on Christmas Eve No, you can never fall too far You can buy a salad glove, you can buy an iPod And you can sell that shit to Bookman's when your wife dies and you lose your job You can hope it gets better, you can follow your dreams But hope is for presidents and dreams are for people who are sleeping My friend Erin says, "at best, we're all two or three bad decisions away From becoming the ones that we fear and pity" And Tony says it's important to bear some witness when you can And that's not hard to do in the city that I live in You don't have it any better, you don't have it any worse You're an irreplaceable human soul with your own understanding of what it means to suffer And that's a huge bummer