Half a Million - Flipped

I make myself a promise
 Then break it every night
 I'm feeling loose and life don't make no sense
 I use my brains to build a fence
 'Round the claim I stake
 I take the drugs but the drugs won't take
 I took a pledge to grow up
 Then drank enough to make me throw up
 On all my dearly disappointed friends
 I'm just too lazy to make amends
 With you anyway
 That's why the pattern still remains
 There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be
 A shelter in the nighttime
 A punk running free
 And if it gets too deep
 I reach for my guitar
 And if I try hard
 I find something I can really drop into
 And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing
 Everything is something next to nothing
 As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free
 Another candle to blow out
 New set of dark thoughts to shut out
 And everybody's got their remedies
 But nothing works like chemistry
 So raise a toast
 No more sipping from the fire hose
 There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be
 A shelter in the nighttime
 A freak on the scene
 And if it gets too deep
 I reach for my guitar
 And if I try hard
 I find something I can really drop into
 And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing
 Everything is something next to nothing
 As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free
 There's half a million things that you're supposed to be
 A virgin in the moonlight
 A freak on the scene
 And if it gets too deep
 You reach for your guitar
 And if you try hard
 There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be
 A shelter in the nighttime
 A punk on the street
 And if it gets too deep
 I reach for my guitar
 And if I try hard