Standard (EADGBE)

 You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need

 Gotta sleep on your toes and when you're on the street

 You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed

Then moving in silently downwind and out of sight

You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking

 And after a while you can work on points of style

 Like the club tie and the firm handshake

A certain look in the eye and an easy smile

 You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to

 So that when they turn their backs on you

You'll get the chance to put the knife in

Guitar solo

 You've gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder

 You know it's gonna get harder, harder and harder as you get older

 And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south, hide your head in the sand

Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer

[Half tempo]

[Guitar solo ad lib]

And when you lose control you'll reap the harvest you have sown

And as the fear grows the bad blood slows and turns to stone

And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around

So have a good drown as you go down all alone

 Dragged down by the stone

[Tempo I]

Gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused

Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used

Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise

 If I don't stand my own ground how can I find my way out of the maze

Deaf, dumb and blind you just keep on pretending

 That everyone's expendable and noone has a real friend

 And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner

 And everything's done under the sun

And you believe at heart everyone's a killer

[Half tempo]

 Who was born in a house full of pain

Who was trained not to spit in the fan

Who was told what to do by the man

Who was broken by trained personnel

Who was fitted with collar and chain

Who was given a pat on back

Who was breaking away from the pack

Who was only a stranger at home

Who was ground down in the end

Who was found dead on the phone

Who was dragged down by the stone

 Who was dragged down by the stone