I woke up one early evening and I knew I was alone Did the sun come up or did it rain again? I'll never know I felt the acid in my stomach rise above my throat as I dialed It was a message from my mother from about 7am Said I'd forgotten what you sound like and I'm wondering how you've been I cried myself to sleep back on the floor, unconscious in the night Life is just a little part of what the world will do To get its point across it beats you till you're black and blue It decides just when you're in or when you're out Cause when you're through, you're through There's a cafe around the corner from a home I call a house I sit and play Sudoku till I figure some *** out I drink the day's first coffee and I smoke the last cigarette of my life And I'm wondering out of all the crazy places that I've been Will it ever be as good as sitting here just with a friend? It's always understood it might be time to switch the coffee to the wine Life is just a little part of what the world will do To get its point across it beats you till you're black and blue It decides just when you're in or when you're out Cause when you're through, you're through Yeah, yeah Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Janice sings to me just like she's sitting by my side And I wonder just how many times she sat like me and cried I've made it past the age of 27, so there's no use in dying And all my friends have asked the question, baby, will you be okay? I wanna tell them yes, cause I know that's what I should say But I've got no crystal ball and I can't bring myself to lie And why should I think that Life is just a little part of what this world will do It brings you to the brink, it beats the *** right out of you And it decides just when you're in or when you're out Cause when you're through, you're through Yeah, yeah, yeah Life is just a little part of what this world will do It brings you to the brink, it beats the *** right out of you And it decides just when you're in or when you're out When you're through, you're through Hey, oh, I guess I'm through Mmm, when you're through, you're through