Evenings on my eyelids, smogs on the horizon
Making all the colors burn orange and red
Grateful to the sunrise,
hey thanks for the moonshine
Back home around this time I'd be wallowing
Hiding from a world
both solemn and mean
Scrubbing in my nails till the water runs clean
I'm the lone defender of an innocent soul
In a dream I call survival,
survival
I'm out for a bimbo,
boys pass me a thimble
This second hand Dodge Caravan is blowing out scenes
I pull off in North County to coyotes howling Stir
impressions of a lover
who got through
to me
Beg for my redemption from a highway queen
She took blood and sweat and skin off of both of my knees
She was my protector before the love got lean I called her survival,
survival
We'd like to make it look so easy It's hard to make it look so easy
And feel like
I'm getting work and I feel inside
No place to run, no place to hide
Survival,
just for survival
I swing out of my weight class, I can be a
smart ass
Ripping on the green grass when the fields
are green
Ruff those clouds awhile,
at least until I'm
smiling
Baby let's forget all of the miles we've
seen Been me against the world
since I was sixteen
And trying to grow apart if you know what I mean
Don't call me a pawn
in the elaborate scheme
Call me survival,
survival