You exclaimed your proclamations But they fell on crowded ears With everybody clamoring from contact And extinction pollinating all their fears Wasted entertainment City boy becomes a city rat There's a mothlight in a bottle of ammonia And we're selling tickets just to see how they react You can stand above me looking down But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder And I would trade my place with you in hell 'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter You can stand above me looking down But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder And I would trade my place with you in hell 'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter You exclaimed your proclamations Pour another drink When the cynicism outweighs the pollution Then it always feels encouraging to sink Patterns are contagions Princesses and crooks First we're grazing in the sunshine Then we're hanging by a hook You can stand above me looking down But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder And I would trade my place with you in hell 'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter You can stand above me looking down But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder And I would trade my place with you in hell 'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter You can stand above me looking down But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder And I would trade my place with you in hell 'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter