i m worried bout you baby down in your rabbit hole the evening of our great escape is starting to unfold out of bed sleepy head it s different than you know everybody pays as they go now pull yourself together get your chin up off your throat now whistle for the dogs and get your sled into the snow nothing s ever buried under skull and bones everybody pays as they go ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh the playing field is level but it s ugly down below it s a devil of a handbook hi ho hi ho either you re the butcher or the lamb but even so everybody pays as they go oh the future busted open wide and ran like a beehive loaded with sand and you can t go back and see it the way you saw it then and nobody can ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh look up and see the men returning in their winter coats now some of them in one piece and some of them got rolled and some less than others some right through the nose but everybody pays as they go and young old and rich and poor your mother she too owes cause everybody pays as they go everybody pays yes everybody pays as they go