Failure to Communicate

Down the hole, shut the grate
 Failure to communicate
 Learn a lesson, meet your fate
 Seems you probably learned too late
 Prison bars replace your drapes
 A life restrained, you can't escape
 You break the rocks, or cut the locks
 And spend a night inside the box
 Take a stand, cuz life ain't planned
 You don't need cards to win the hand
 Take my change, I'll take your soul
 And toss you down into the hole
 Your life is now in retrospect
 Careful, cautious, circumspect
 Don't be bold, check and fold
 Your cigarettes have all been sold
 The deal is raw, swallow it whole
 Your lucky dice will never roll
 Take a stand, cuz life ain't planned
 You don't need cards to win the hand
 And if you want to stick around
 Just be a fool, keep your head down
 Stick it out like a sore thumb
 Long enough and you'll be numb
 Hit the ground, beat the hounds
 Run em to the edge of town
 Play your bluff, break the cuffs
 All you've got is not enough
 Wanna fly? Have to try
 Take a look into my eye
 When you do, what you will see
 Is yourself and none of me
 Take a stand, cuz life ain't planned
 You don't need cards to win the hand