I can't live this way
Breaking all my rules again
Choking on my gin
You push 'til I give in
'Til the loser always wins

Somehow with his beckoning
Bruising with his threads
Confusing what he says
But I won't live that way
Though I kind of want to anyway
Kind of want to play
With all the pretty and the pure
Well, I return to the earth
I return to the dust
No more beauty by the pound
And this I do not trust

'Cause nothing forgives
Rules and narrow margins
In our lives
It's rules and narrow margins
That I'ma slip by

I can't find the time
I don't know the future
I couldn't bring that past back
I waste what little time I have

But I swear I almost touched it
Yet it slipped between my fingers
Sent shivers down my spine
Cut a splinter in my mind

But it wasn't nothing again
There's rules and narrow margins
But our life
It's rules and narrow margins
That I'ma slip by

Rules and narrow margins
Rules and narrow margins
That I'ma slip by