[Verse 1] I put my life on hold and took you home Good sense shot down I placed you on a throne Where was the wheel that kept me on the road The force of nature preventing overload So don't you know I've been dressed to k** If you got the tools be careful what you build When the arrow's in the bull's-eye every time It's hard a**uming that the archer's blind [Chorus] My quicksand Let me introduce you To my final stand I went to Paris once I thought I had a plan I woke up with an accent I wound up in quicksand My quicksand [Verse 2] I was full of foreign notions at the start There was never once When I was off my guard For any ghost of every poet in the ground There's one like me To buy the guys a round [Chorus] My quicksand Let me introduce you To my final stand I went to Paris once I thought I had a plan I woke up with an accent I wound up in quicksand My quicksand [Verse 3] I'm going down You and me together going down It's not what I'd been told about this town That when you least expect if you can drown In quicksand My quicksand [Chorus] My quicksand Let me introduce you To my final stand I went to Paris once I thought I had a plan I woke up with an accent I wound up in quicksand My quicksand My quicksand My quicksand