Everybody's watching, none of them I've ever met
Starring in the headlines no good news is death
Threats fly through the airmail, e-mail and express
Fax instructions for the bomb
A bone breaking game of chess

Starved and banged what a way to go
Slit wristed, run over and hanged
What a way to go

Pushed too far by numbers
Payments way past due
Additional tack on late charge
Who'll be screwing who

Screwed my head so tightly
Feels like it's gonna snap at the neck
If you're gonna cheat with your own cards
At least you could shuffle the deck

Starved and banged what a way to go
Slit wristed, run over and hanged
What a way to go

Starved and banged what a way to go
Slit wristed, run over and hanged
What a way to go

Sweat it out in walls that both my shoulders touch
If I hadn't lost everything else
My mind wouldn't matter so much
Backed up on a pay way, free way, blue lights closing fast
I was promised before my eyes
I'd see my life flashing past

Starved and banged what a way to go
Slit wristed, run over and hanged
What a way to go

Starved and banged what a way to go
Slit wristed, run over and hanged
What a way to go

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Writer(s): CRAIG NIELSON, ED CARLSON, ERIC BRAVERMAN, ERIC KNUTSON, JASON WARD, MARK SIMPSON