Vanity Trip

Here I am, I’m a man in a million

So get used to the strange and estrange the familiar

I’m here to take your money (give it up)

My words, well they all sound the same

I don’t carry laughter through the flame

Just a spill of color (and dumb luck)

But it’s getting harder not to see myself up on the tv

It’s getting harder not to see myself up in the clouds

Ain’t nobody ever mention anything that could save me no more

I won’t wait by your door

It’s a global stage

With a narrow spotlight

Shining like a diamond on my vanity trip

Love is a number you can torture and twist

Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist

You never risk your life, still end up losing it

Cause I’m living

Living on my own time baby

Living on my own time now

Ain’t nobody else who could save me no more

I won’t wait by your door

Less a lion than the liar that the people always took me for

I am the helix in the hangman’s noose

The shepherd’s a wolf and the wolves are loose

Born a million men, but I will die as one

You better run, run, run