Music & lyrics: chan kinchla, brendan hill & john popper



In this vale of toil and sin

You're stuck in a race that you just can't win

Just take a look around and it's so obscene

But that's the way it is, so you gotta get mean



Don't waste your time wondering why

Cause the only thing you know is that someday you'll die

You gotta get tough, you gotta get lean

But best of all you get to gotta get mean



You give me an itch and i'll blow you away

It's part of this dangerous game that we play

You'd do the same if you'd seen what i'd seen

C'est la vie, mon cherie, ya gotta get mean