Do It All Again

My past is the key, it's not the lock To the gate that has kept me off track Nothing is free in this world except Jesus And he ain't been calling me back Well, I wasn't looking, but I found a reason Way down deep in the haystack Turns out my demons are terrified of needles And what I just poured in this glass The sight of green money makes me feel funny Gnawing away at my gut A natural born loser from Chattanooga Now I reside in the Bluff Brought up family first, first family f*ck up But everyone else does rather well Spent my preteens in church, my twenties were worse The last few years have been hell Help me to get back east Can't live in the cold anymore I've never felt so weak And I've been here many times before The forest is blocked by the trees Passed out on my brother's floor Help me to get back east Yeah, you can bet when it comes to the edge There's a line that you just don't cross The ones who know how far the cliff goes Are the ones who have fallen off If you land on your feet, go plan your retreat To surrender is to win If when we die we get another shot at life I'd probably just do it all again Help me to get back east Can't live in the cold anymore I've never felt so weak I've been here many times before All of our futures look so bleak Wonder what life might have in store Help me to get back east My past is the key, it's not the lock To the gate that has kept me off track Nothing is free in this world except Jesus He ain't been calling me back I wasn't looking, but I found a reason Way down deep in the haystack Turns out my demons are terrified of needles And what I just poured in this glass