Because the cost of living About the situation Is getting so high, high, high” It's really so high, high, high Is getting so high, high, high About everything And this is what he said He told me, “Famine, famine, famine

Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love You'll understand what I mean when I say There's no way we're gonna give up And like a little girl cries in the face of a

Ain't it the life Try living a lie and kicking out The same old guise Wasting time Can you save me from The borrowed cloud I'm on All you've gotta do is try Pray you're just getting by

Round and round we go We're gonna love it when the lights go down Hold on here we go We're gonna go until our legs give out We're gonna do it hanging upside down Up and down we go We're getting ready for the next go round I wanna do it 'till the sun

Your love I'm lost in There must be something in the water 'Cause everyday it's getting colder And if only I could hold you You'd keep my head from going under I've been told, I've been told to get you off my mind But I hope I never lose the bruises that

I'm ready to go! I'm living like a landmine Waiting to explode! I'm ticking like a time-bomb Ready to go! I'm a danger to myself And everybody else And I can't hold much longer It keeps getting stronger

I feel our bodies getting colder And it's the road that leads to nowhere But all I want to do is go there She's got me, running from the daylight She gives me, a feeling that I can't fight Before we started it was over I'm not ready to start again And

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend How the sky turns to fire Against the telephone wire And even I'm getting tired of useless desires Say goodbye to the old street that never cared much for you anyway And the different colored doorways you thought

Baby, I'm hot just like an oven It's getting stronger and stronger Baby, open up and let me in I need some lovin' And baby, I can't hold it much longer And when I get that feeling I want sexual healing Sexual healing is something that's good for me

It's only getting worse, Behold this bitter curse, It's only getting worse, the end is nigh. Am I awake or dreaming? Is this the life we're breaking? Why stay alive when dying is much easier? It's not gonna end the way you want, The end is nigh