Steady Going Nowhere

I got street cred, gun powder gray eyes and a stolen purse

Six pounds of state jewelry on my ankles and wrists

I've renewed the old family curse

A spider web windshield, they'll never let my ass past the borderline

I'm just looking for a place to spend the rest of my sins

Before the jig is up and I can go home

And it's a hard bargain we drive

We ain't living, we're just tryin' to survive

Knocked out, loaded and left out

Vanished in the air

And we're steady going nowhere

Well she smiled and drew the blinds and then pulled back the covers

Said it's nice being friends, now can we just be lovers

Well it's hard being a pimp, can I cower 'neath the concrete sun?

You can get a lethal injection in the Sunshine State

Or an alley down on Hastings Street

And it's a hard bargain we drive

We ain't living, we're just tryin' to survive

Knocked out, loaded and left out

Vanished in the air

And we're steady going nowhere

Were we anything more than gods and men?

A column of bone and baby that's it

A column of bone and one last hit

Tone deaf, New Years Eve, a cup of kindness yet

I have danced with death so often, I can teach you all the steps

In somewhere stolen my fate plays out so differently

Far from this no man's wasteland, free falling

On a black hawk wind

And it's a hard bargain we drive

We ain't living, we're just tryin' to survive

Knocked out, loaded and left out

Vanished in the air

And we're steady going nowhere

And we're steady going nowhere