I Wake Up Every Day

I’ve got a Black Cloud following me around

Try to ignore it but it’s getting too loud

Feel like doing nothing

Think I’m coming down with something

Pat on the back just for getting out of bed

Stood in the pie shop queue, full of dread

Some kind of hold up in the back

I think about a panic attack

Get out of there because it’s taking too long

Fog in my head like something’s going wrong

What would even happen if I just let it happen?

Gave up all the tapping and counting and let it happen.

Probably nothing but I don’t wana find out

Call from a girl friend seeing if I’m coming out

Can’t think of anything worse

Popularity is a curse

Hanging in groups is beginning to get tough

Keep my mouth shut, my brain has had enough

Think of something funny to say

I’ve got nothing funny to say

But I could win an Oscar for acting like I’m good

Standing there nodding like anyone else would

Lights are all on but there’s nobody in charge

Batteries gone and there’s nowhere to recharge

Some call it a rhythm and others call it a rut

Call it what you want, whatever it is I’m stuck

I wake up every day

I wake up every day

I wake up every day

I wake up every day

When I cross the road I don’t look each way

If a car comes, it comes, I’m ok

I wake up every day

Expanding waistband and tooth decay

Last demand, rent and bills to pay

I wake up every day

Cos I’ve got a Black Cloud who’s taken control

Flooded my heart out and stood on my soul

Athlete, now a lumbering zombie

Can’t breathe with fog octopus on me

Meltdown, screaming out for rock bottom

Cat with nine lives hoping I’ve got em

Dormant core strength prime to erupt

Don’t import pills, the file’s corrupt

Pay the gas bill and sober up

Save your ass, zip your lycra up

Cos I’ve got a background of pounding streets

And I’ve got a Black Cloud who can’t beat me

Hi-Tec Silver Shadows, I’m free

I’ve got a spare soul that you can’t see

I’m an invincible heart that beats

Yeh I’ve got a Black Cloud who can’t beat me