Waiting For The Payoff

You give up your dreams they turn to bread
Your kids get fed, but then what's left
A rat in a wheel running for crumbs
I'm snug and settled down
In an antiseptic town, yeah

At stop lights
Looking round for understanding eyes
Someone to save us from these spaces
We pile high the wreckage money buys
Parade it for uninterested faces

And we make our own traps and collapse in em
Just for a little piece of land
To put our lives all over the walls

And we're waiting for the payoff
Has it ever been worth it
When you never seen a jackpot
How you gonna believe it
You gonna believe it

You want to be heard and respected
Not laughed at and shot down
And the structures that keep you protected
Tree roots pull you to the ground

Fill your blood with drugs it doesn't matter
Take your share of women, take the young men too
Nothing ever give you what you're after
Reach out for what's real in this world
And don't feel 'cause they will beat it out of you

Yeah, we're waiting for the payoff
Has it ever been worth it
Oh I've never seen a jackpot
Don't know if I believe it

Things I've done and wished I'd not
Things I saw but didn't stop
It's all in my head, it's all in my head
I broke a promise to myself
I sold you out to save my skin
It's all in my head, it's all in my head
It's all in my head, it's all in my head

And we're waiting for the payoff
Has it ever been worth it
I've never seen a jackpot
Don't know if I believe it

And we're waiting for the payoff
Has it ever been worth it
I've never seen a jackpot
I don't know if I believe it
Don't know how you believe it