you know when you were a kid and they said don t tell stories yo mantra yo drapht let s tell some stories when i get to you no i won t forget what it took and takes by the book and breaks by the crate and limb by the state i m in by the skin of my teeth took it on the chin i was up for it yep more than no i was down for the cause and you ought to know spent all day on it at work and then brought it home something like an addiction never fought it though got a debt to the stars debt to the gutter a debt to the bars debt for the wisdom that i will discard you can bet i ll do it in the future as i have in the past all of it has scarred me but i m still here through the imperfections that interfered feeling like a thief stole a whole career wanna know let me lend your ear i had to go about it ride it out and find it myself and there s some stories i can tell you i had to fail had to fall just for what i did well and there s some stories i can tell you whether or not you went and got a better job got fed up instead forget mantra i m better off being robbed went along with whatever the others want i got a lot on my chest i gotta get it off my heart was heavier than it ever had been barely ever slept kept seeing the bad dreams ordered three cigarettes and caffeine you know i m cheap but you are no antique there s no need to thank me just thank your lucky stars that we never had beef i never wanted to kill you though i tried although it wouldn t have been you but me that would have died i decided what seems like a long time ago that i could put my life into the microphone even if it meant i d never buy a home we ll die happy even if we gotta die alone i had to go about it ride it out and find it myself and there s some stories i can tell you i had to fail had to fall just for what i did well and there s some stories i can tell you  x2 you ve got to go about it you re going to ride it out you re going to know about it you re going to let it out ya had to strip it all back to discover me discover you see the love in each ugly gutter it was a part of me had a gargoyle on every artery guarding my heart a marksman locked on a target in darkness but fuck it was hard to sleep cos everything i feared became part of me see we became a carcinogenic thought cause and effect that would mimic war walk through the valley of death with the dark to grasp the importance of breath before we would war with the rest you and me we were chalk and cheese always a lesson unless i had to let you be me i had to go about it ride it out and find it myself and there s some stories i can tell you i had to fail had to fall just for what i did well and there s some stories i can tell you i had to go about it ride it out and find it myself and there s some stories i can tell you i had to fail had to fall just for what i did well and there s some stories i can tell you you ve got to go about it you re going to ride it out you re going to know about it you re going to let it out