The Common Touch

Every night I'm lying here, the world crashing through my ears

I always hear the same damn thing: "you can't you're life on a hanging string"

He's always saying, "stop complaining

You really can't ever expect too much

Boy, you were born with the common touch"

And we fall and fall and fall and fall

With our heads soaked up in alcohol

One hand on a cigarette

I swear I still got some good moves left

I've been fifty-eight since I was twenty-three

I got sixty-nine problems but one ain't me

And seriously I don't give a fuck

If my answer isn't good enough

Hey, there, tell me man

What's the answer to this riddle then?

Is it heroin?

Or Jesus Christ?

Big-ass books?

Or sleepless nights?

I had a few of those and everyone knows

That the common touch ain't worth the price

As we fall and fall and fall and fall

With our heads soaked up in alcohol

Two hands on our Juliette

I swear I still got some good moves left

And if you promise that you'll stay with me

I swear that I will always see

The best of you and me

Hey, now tell me this, how these days and nights can coexist

A million pieces in my mind, every damn thing at the exact damn time

It always seems like the same damn dream

My legs don't work and I can't sing

I swear I don't feel a god damn thing

As we fall and fall and fall and fall

With our heads fucked up on alcohol

Two hands on my Juliette

I swear, baby girl, I'm not done yet

And if you promise that you'll stay with me

I swear that I will always see

The best of you and me

And when I wake up I wonder where everyone's gone

I just can't sleep so I lay there until the dawn

And I wonder if god knows anything

Does god know what's going on?

'Cause I can't be alone just yet and you're the only good thing that I got left

I know I got these problems still but I swear it's real and I swear I will

Maybe we can't ever expect too much but we can live here with the common touch

And we'll all fall and fall and fall and fall

Get all fucked up on alcohol

We're going to have a good time yet

Some got more, but some got less

And if you promise that you'll stay with me

I swear that I will always be

Something you can believe!

Yeah, they say that Jesus saves but I couldn't write that on his grave

So I snuck his ashes through the gate and I threw them on the outside lane

Where we watched the horses going by, hoping to keep the pick-four alive

I was ten years old, he was forty-five, number nine came through and we high-fived

I know it don't amount to much but that's called love with the common touch

I lost my shit when I heard the call

Felt buried beneath the weight and all

Twenty-five tons fell on my chest

Every hour, every breath

You tell me every day that you won't leave

I'm sorry I put this at your feet

But tell me can't you see

That we fall and fall and fall and fall

We meet each other at the end of it all

We wonder where all the good time's gone

How we carried something so long

We made a little something that felt like home

So we could face the night to come

With that common touch, that common touch, that common touch

To make us feel less alone