| You wake up, roll over to your alarm clock’s screaming bray |
| 'cause it rings at 6:55AM almost every day |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Work all your life, be a corpse |
| Rat race: Corpse |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Get up, look at your ceiling which is someone else’s floor |
| Just a quick shit-shower-shave, you’re running out the door |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| And so it goes |
| And so it goes |
| Work all your life and be a corpse and that’s the way it goes |
| And goes, and goes… and so it goes |
| And that’s the fucking way it goes |
| Off to your job where you work two thousand hours a year |
| Keep it up for forty years and watch your life disappear |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Add in all those hours that you’ll need to spend asleep |
| Two thirds of your life is wasted, buddy — life is fuckin' cheap |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| Rot and decay, American dream |
| And so it goes |
| And so it goes |
| And so it goes |
| Work all your life and be a corpse |
| And that’s the way it goes |
| And goes, and goes… and so it goes |
| And that’s the fucking way it goes and goes |
| And so it goes |