Sub-Basement Lyrics

Ever since I started out I keep on slinkin' in the pit
Times changed called my name told me that
I'd grow out of it
Out of step and time
Ain't worth a dime
Or they told me so

I'll stay a wrong sided hit
I don't like what's on the radio
Torn down and been condemned
Like a tenement row
But in the trap door cellar
There's still a special lamp glow
And still a step down deeper
Where you cannot see with eyes
Is the ramp to the damp
Where the sub-basement cries
No escape
Through the years and the tears
Under black cloud skies
Seems the lower that I go
Is where my true heart lies
And when I'm stuck in the thick of it
There's no need to roam
Some think of me as fried but it's a choice of my own
I've been called a dinosaur relic
Stuck in the twilight zone
But stickin' in the sub-basement
Keeps me lit to the bone

Like the bats hanging dormant
In their nocturnal fleet
I'm still around underground
Gettin' my peace without sleep - yeah

No escape
There's no way out
No doubt
No way out

So when the strands on the spider's loom
Cast a glow in the room
Won't be long for the web has caught a new prey for doom

And there ain't no worry
About no fee or any rent
Long as cement songs keep climbin'
Out of the sub-basement

Ain't no worry about no fee
And there ain't any rent
Long as cement songs keep climbin' out of the
Sub-basement
No escape
Ain't no doubt - no way out - no doubt
Sssshhhh - aaaahhhh