Ashes to ashes

That's how it ends

You go from heartache to heartache

As you make amends

Just bigger and bigger

You take two steps back

You want something from nothing

And you're so exact



You think you're a rich man

Now you misbehave

You're not a free man running

Just a comfortable slave



[Chorus:]

So selfish

You got more than you can use

But you still don't see

You're so selfish

And you're running out of room



Deeper and deeper

As you forge ahead

You go higher and higher

But you've been mislead

Harder and harder

You grind the stone

Faster faster faster

Till you're skin and bones



Too much ambition

Without relief

You know that ain't heaven

But it's what you teach



[Chorus]



[Instrumental break]



Who's got the answer

Give me the cure

Don't rush to judgement

Until you're sure



[Repeat chorus two times]