They Told Me

[Hook]x2 They told me When I was little I'd go to heaven If I was good [Kno] (They told me) it might take my whole life To absorb what was right Or ignore it to fight For these whores in these tights Or these boardroom types telling me that I might Need to pour my whole life Into chores I dislike For the right to recite How much money that I got How much money that I'm not Gonna make If I take Leap of faith Will I make Decent wage? Prolly not But I'm not Gonna stop Gonna do it for my pops 'Til they choke me off with a knot And pop me off in a box And drop me off at a plot And top me off with a rock My body is gonna rot (They told me) that I'll soon see the light If I like it or not Thats the icing on top of the birthday cake that is baked For a tot So he's taught To count the days til he drops [Hook] [Deacon] (They told me) not to fear living for eternity But, not even Heaven seemed pleasant it was burning me Raised with peasants in the crescents we were shadows When reality television was watching adults And, throughout the comedy was drama and alot of pain And that sentence it would run on 'til the comma came Until the eulogy and usually my mama sang About the pheasants and presence we no longer claim (they told me) that Heaven is forever But at times I'd find myself thinking I'd rather never Lived, I mean, my life was like a dream I had everything I wanted but, that ain't all it seems For... all the time in the world Live eternal in inferno or in Eden with the squirrels No brainer, it's that, I was feeling like Lestat And the thought of forevermore was feeling like a trap All it brought, was more of the same, people in flames A reality television channel that never changes Lost in the confusion of 7 billion strangers Scared to hope Heaven won't have a touch of the same [Hook]