Familiar Patterns

This business ain't for the faint of heart Well, I fell for the bullshit And then I started falling apart And by the end of the summer I let it get the best of me What a goddamn bummer What a waste of my energy So I spent a long time down in the basement Instead of rolling with the riff-raff 'Cause I'm no better I'm no better than that Yeah, I spent a long time trying to make it And when I finally faced the facts I never felt so shitty before I never felt so miserable Following familiar patterns I'm falling back into ruin I'm getting serious douche chills Just being in this room I didn't even see the humour With the situation I was in Knocking back down shooters 'Til I puked in the kitchen Yeah, I spent a long time down in the basement Instead of rolling with the riff-raff 'Cause I'm no better I'm no better than that I spent a long time trying to make it And when I finally faced the facts I never felt so shitty before I never felt so miserable They used to all talk down at me And now they're biting their tongues They used to say, "Don't quit your day job" Well guess what? I never had one! I never felt so shitty before I never felt so miserable I spent a long time down in the basement Instead of rolling with the riff-raff 'Cause I'm no better I'm no better than that Yeah, I spent a long time trying to make it But when I finally faced the facts I never felt so shitty before I never felt so miserable