sky started out red
no thoughts of bed

jus' sittin' here thinkin'
of what i should be doing
here instead

seven smokes
by seven o'clock
can't even work up a cough

but i don't care
no i don't care

every night when i wake up
gasp for air
try to cough it up
and every morning when i go to bed
can't help thinkin'
i'd be better off dead

light up
if you don't like life
cough it up
do it twice

my pa
said if you don't like life
cough it up
do it twice

made a pact with the old man
on remembrance day
to pull the plug
but he said give me
a couple of days