when those thoughts won t come i know that the shakes will i ve got no gun to my weary head hell i couldn t even hold the barrel still everybody loves a catch twenty two damned if you don t son damned if you do outside it s another day that i ve got to make it through i know that i said that it d be all right it s just gonna take a little while i m tried to wait with the patience of job it s like bustin down a prison usin a broken file to each his own and so on think each of us we might own the wrong one yeah there might ve been some cause cry i was just tryin to have some fun yeah mary save me cause i m sinkin oh won t you please throw me a line mary save me cause i m sinkin mary i m runnin out of time they say hope springs eternal i say eternity it springs up hope it can overload my feeble mind it s gonna go lookin for some ways to cope i found the bottle or it found me tried to turn my future into history can anybody hear can anybody see yeah mary save me cause i m sinkin oh won t you please throw me a line mary save me cause i m sinkin mary i m runnin out of time mary save me cause i m sinkin oh won t you please throw me a line mary save me cause i m sinkin mary i m runnin out of time