You live on the sunnyside Where the stars don't shine You're drunk and twisted So f**in' wasted You're from the emerald Isle You'd swear you swam the nile I know you need your life But it's a waste of time After so many years Of automatic jeers And covering up of tears With your synthetic cheer You paved the boulevard With good intentions In your forever search For bar extensions If this is healthy If this will save me Bring me to safety I'll start behavin' I know you need your life But it's a waste of time Stop me wastin' away And there's his trophy kept A dusty cabinet He'll raise a can to it He won't let time forget The ink surrounds the scars that He's collected in bars Time has let him forget This man's a walking wreck If this is healthy If this will save me Bring me to safety I'll start behavin' I know you see my life As just a waste of time Stop me wastin' If this is healthy If this will save me Bring me to safety I'll start behavin' I know you need your life But it's a waste of time Stop me wastin' away And on the walls inside Pictures of all the lives That have been pushed aside A country's suicide No one believes the smiles You force on shopping aisles Who knows what's on their files From your nights on the tiles And at the moment you fall through the door wasted She's in her corner while you vomit on the pavement Tonight the superstar's thrown his towel in So what about his life? Alleged waste of time If this is healthy If this will save me Bring me to safety I'll start behavin' I know you need your life But it's a waste of time Stop me wastin' away