1. I’m a fish out of water savoring the benefits of the land
Until I suffocate, do not resuscitate.
A runaway train of thought off the rails.
The latest flavor of the week just got stale.
I’ve seen the must-sees, avoided the must-nots.
Been through a university, emerged uncaught.
Just watch, I avoid similes like the Plague.
A no-show at the bum-ticker-tape parade.
I never ask ‘cause I know where the time went.
The dogs on my trail getting tired of my scent.
Lost in the tangles crass delight dangles.
Centerfolds are not the place to find angels.
I’m whistling the song not blaring on the PA.
Do as we do, do not do as we say.
I’m modelin’ all of the inhibitions you should want.
Fill a speech bubble with criticism in good fonts.
Envy a squid: no face to lose.
Got a meltdown planned that’ll make the news.
Here to tell you that the buddy system isn’t foolproof.
It’s a proven fact that two can be fools too.
There ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
But that don’t imply causality.
If you can find a void, I guess don’t care if you fill it
Just stop hounding me.

Chorus: (Even In the dark you hear me running out in front of you, the clutter that I’m cutting through, I’m one step ahead.
Even when you go to bed, you sleep and dream and see my tread, and wake up feeling you been led, I’m one step ahead.) x2
(Fake to the right, then duck to the left.
But I am still ahead by one step.
Be at peace with your place, your endeavor is done.
Accepting I’m ahead is step one.) x2

2. I don’t believe in what you believe to be
karma, or karma, yes, there’s a difference.
I believe in miracles
But sexy things don’t prove their existence.
If I’m a Dictator the trains will not run on time.
You know I mean it when I underline.
Yeah, It’s another fine mess that I’ve gotten me into.
Got more than I could chew with the bullet I bit through.
Those whores go to war in their lingerie.
Brides throw bouquets like “bombs away.”
My kingdom for a superior kingdom.
Keep your horse, you agree, you’ll need one.
Got the same ability to stop a show as one monkey.
Songs of humility and thanks sung smugly.
Lists and itineraries circle, none touch me
‘til I give permission then they rush and crush me.
Trust me, it doesn’t take a coffee cup.
It takes a nation of millions to prop me up.
Tell me what’s so great about a clean break?
I wanna pick through the rubble that I helped create.
Odds are the worst mistake that I will make
In my life has not been made yet .
When you miss your turn the important role
you were supposed to fill stays vacant.

Chorus: (Even In the dark you hear me running out in front of you, the clutter that I’m cutting through, I’m one step ahead.
Even when you go to bed, you sleep and dream and see my tread, and wake up feeling you been led, I’m one step ahead.) x2
(Fake to the right, then duck to the left.
But I am still ahead by one step.
Be at peace with your place, your endeavor is done.
Accepting I’m ahead is step one.) x2

3. You don’t need to convince, beg, bet, or dare me.
I love a night creep through a cemetery.
Stop, everybody, wait, what was that sound?
The dead push up daisies, we’re stompin’ ‘em back down!
Background noise, dead voice, detect it.
Perish the thought and I’ll resurrect it.
Connect it back to the brain it came from.
It’s a deadly life and it pays to play dumb.
Whose grave dirt got under my fingernails?
The dead stay dead, still the weak turn pale.
I will not be groaning the name of my sled
When I’m writhing in pain on my deathbed.
When a crisis strikes it’s fight or flight.
Then succumb in your sleep to a spider bite.
If I die tonight, I’m gonna get a laugh
When you see my free verse epitaph.
I’m not trying to scare you, not trying to avoid it.
Look over the edge, you won’t be disappointed.
Exquisite corpse, but you flee from the smell.
You’ll be hallucinating if you see me in Hell.
They can freeze my face, they can dress me well,
Extract my guts, let fall the shroud.
All I want is a typo-free tombstone
When the worms crawl in, when the worms crawl out.

Chorus: (Even In the dark you hear me running out in front of you, the clutter that I’m cutting through, I’m one step ahead.
Even when you go to bed, you sleep and dream and see my tread, and wake up feeling you been led, I’m one step ahead.) x2
(Fake to the right, then duck to the left.
But I am still ahead by one step.
Be at peace with your place, your endeavor is done.
Accepting I’m ahead is step one.) x2