Steady Going Nowhere

I got street cred, gunpowder gray eyes and a stolen purse
 Six pounds of state jewelry on my ankles and wrists
 I've renewed the old family curse
 A spider web windshield, they'll never let my ass past the borderline
 I'm just looking for a place to spend the rest of my sins
 Before the jig is up and I can go home
 And it's a hard bargain we drive
 We ain't living, we're just trying to survive
 Knocked out, loaded and let down
 Vanished in the air
 And we're steady going nowhere
 Well, she smiled and drew the blinds and then pulled back the covers
 Said, "It's been nice being friends, now can we just be lovers?"
 Well, it's hard being a pimp, can I cower 'neath the concrete sun
 You can get a lethal injection in the Sunshine State
 Or an alley down on Hastings Street
 And it's a hard bargain we drive
 We ain't living, we're just trying to survive
 Knocked out, loaded and let down
 Vanished in the air
 And we're steady going nowhere
 Were we anything more than gods and men?
 A column of bone and, baby, that's it
 A column of bone and one last hit
 Tone-deaf, New Year's Eve, a cup of kindness yet
 I have danced with death so often, I can teach you all the steps
 In somewhere stolen, my fate plays out so much differently
 Far from this no man's wasteland, free-falling
 On a Black Hawk wind
 And it's a hard bargain we drive
 We ain't living, we're just trying to survive
 Knocked out, loaded and let down
 Vanished in the air
 And we're steady going nowhere
 And we're steady going nowhere