Hamster Wheel Blues

Well I got no direction but I got two feet

That carry me to work and carry me to sleep

But I think I’m headed nowhere that’s just how I feel

This ain’t a road I’m walkin it’s a hamster wheel

My mother said that I should try and rest

Since I lost my job when I overstepped

I tried to quit drinking but I’m lying to myself

I took too many steps to take another twelve

In the supermarket for the umpteenth time

Bathing in the glory of fluorescent light

I know for certain that hells great halls

Are filled with easy music and big shopping malls

It’s just the same damn day

Over and over

Wakin in the mornin when the sun aint shinin

I hear Gabriel’s trumpet

Over and over

But I head out in the morning cuz I ain’t yet done

My days aren’t mine and my one vacation

Is a small quiet moment at the local gas station

The oncoming traffic yeah it just might tempt me

My tanks full up but my heart’s on empty

I roll over in bed that I share with my phone

the world in my hand but I’m just so alone

While the words comes unbidden like a stranger in the night

I’m waiting for a signal or some kind of sign

I see faces in the trees and little hands in the pavement

A message in the engines O they whisper of replacement

Heard a new days coming yeah we broke the seal

But life down here for us is on a hamster wheel

It’s just the same damn day

Over and over

Wakin in the mornin when the sun aint shinin

I hear Gabriel’s trumpet

Over and over

But I head out in the morning cuz I ain’t yet done

white trees rise with

glowing street lights

old hills rumor mills

light up black and gold at night

silhouettes on wires

set against the sky

as the city settles

as the city settles

and sighs

who’s there

standing in the yard?

A searchlight sweeps over

two figures in the yard

they’re eating something

they haven’t seen me