Narrow Margins

I can't live this way
Breaking all my rules again
Choking on my gin
You push till I give in
Till the loser always wins

Somehow with his beckoning
Bruising with his threats
Confusing what he says
But I won't live that way
Though I kinda want to anyway
Kinda want to play
With the pretty and the pure
When I return to the earth
I return to the dust
No more beauty by the pound
In this I do not trust

Cause nothing forgives
these rules and narrow margins
and I lied
It's rules and narrow margins
I must live by

I can't find the time
I don't own a future
I couldn't bring that past back
I waste what little time I have

But I swear I almost touched it
Yet it slipped between my fingers
Sent shivers down my spine
Like a splinter in my mind

But it wasn't nothing, again
These rules and narrow margins
and I lied
It's rules and narrow margins
that I must live by

Rules and narrow margins
Rules and narrow margins
that I must live by