Interpret:

Roger Waters

Album:

In the Flesh

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need 
 You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street 
 You gotta be able to pick up the easy meat 
 With your eyes closed 
 And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight 
 You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking 
 And after a while, you can work on points for style 
 Like the club tie, and the firm handshake 
 A certain look in the eye and an easy smile 
 You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to 
 So that when they turn their backs on you 
 You'll get the chance to put the knife in 
 You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder 
 You know it's going to get harder, and harder and harder 
 As you get older 
 And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south 
 Hide your head in the sand 
 Just another sad old man 
 All alone and dying of cancer 
 And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest 
 You have sown 
 And as fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone 
 And its too late to loose the weight 
 You used to need to throw around 
 So have a good drown, as you go down, alone 
 Dragged down by the stone 
 I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused 
 Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used 
 Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise 
 If I don't stand on my own ground, 
 How can I find my own way out of this maze? 
 Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending 
 That everyone's expendable and no one has a real friend 
 And it seems to you the thing to do 
 Would be to isolate the winner 
 And everything's done under the sun 
 And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer 
 Who was born in a house full of pain 
 Who was trained not to spit in the fan 
 Who was told what to do by the man 
 Who was broken by trained personnel 
 Who was fitted with collar and chain 
 Who was given a pat on a back 
 Who was breaking away from the pack 
 Who was only a stranger at home 
 Who was ground down in the end 
 Who was found dead in the phone 
 Who was dragged down by the stone