The Scribes – Pipe Dreams Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- He sits and stares as his dad lights/
- Up on the crack pipe/
- While Dad goes under he wonders what that's like/
- And how come his Dad likes that more than real life/
- They say at school he don't act right/
- Reacts with violence 'cause that's what his Dad's like/
- Hides in silence finds guidance from bad types/
- He's losing his damn mind/ He's losing his damn mind/
- Each packed pipe his Dad lights he's left so low/
- He stays out escapes out till he goes home/
- His Dad's high and asks why he's late home broke/
- The kid's face with one blow to his nose bone/
- Bites his tongue far too young now to fight back/
- While he cleans up Dad goes out to buy crack/
- Dad gets back says he's sorry their life's crap/
- But there's a cure in this pipe son try that/
Hook
- I'm sick and tired, beat up and down/
- I strike out to fight the cold/
- I'm split and wired, day in day out/
- A lighthouse within my soul/
- I'm sick and tired of struggling to breath/
- And these crack pipe dreams won't set me free/
Verse 2
- He sits and stares at the crack pipe/
- Caught in a half life/
- But more or less I guess we all know what that's like/
- Friendships that capsized caught up on bad tides/
- I guess we've all had our bad times/
- Trying to stay grounded whilst standing on landslides/
- He swallows pride follows lighters like lamplights/
- He's out of his damn mind/ He's out of his damn mind/
- He stands by and gets high as life passes/
- Every time he gets lucid can't grasp it/
- Every single toke he takes he swears that that's it/
- Just another lost soul seeking his last hit/
- And imagine it no magic trick can stop him snatching shit/
- Just another addict it's savage this/
- Life can bring challenges/
- That make it a damn hell/
- But we're lucky here we do the worse shit to our damn selves/
Hook
- I'm sick and tired, beat up and down/
- I strike out to fight the cold/
- I'm split and wired, day in day out/
- A lighthouse within my soul/
- I'm sick and tired of struggling to breath/
- And these crack pipe dreams won't set me free/