THESE DAYS IN OUR LIVES

These days in our lives
Each day just trying to survive 
We’re panhandling and prostituting 
Boosting and drug shooting 
We’re on the corners high
And tonight could be the night that one of us may die 
And some may say that the strong ones make it out 
But for some of us it will take our deaths to take us out 
Some think that there’s no hope for us 
And some families can no longer cope with us 
These days in our lives
When you wake up and surprised that you’re alive 
When every day it seems like you see the coroner 
Another overdose across the street and around the corner 
Where rock bottom has become a resting places
And abandoned buildings have become a nesting place 
Where new faces become used faces
And innocent faces now leave few traces 
These days in our lives 
Watching each other fade away as time passes by 
The addiction, the habit 
Till death we feel that we must have it 
And these days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer 
The weak are getting weaker and the strong are no longer stronger 
And they wonder how we do it
How we live through it
These days in our lives!