The Down Escalator

If I have to change another diaper,
I think I'm going to scream
I cannot believe I ever thought
This could be rewarding to me

The little brats are running 'round in circles
I can't stand them anymore
They're too young to guess at why
I'm staring at the door

Chorus:
Paint an invented universe
Where your desires and dreams come first
And tell yourself the chance
Will come around later
Climbing that mountain in your mind
That tells you there's some place better to find
You wake up on the down escalator

Now I am imagining Missouri,
In a strange, mundane daydream
Living in a hole above a storefront
Where no one knows it's me

Sometimes I build the fantasy
Like I've fin'lly broken free,
But sometimes I'm more honest
And it's misery

CHORUS

Bridge:
How dark these dreams that say to me
I'm not where I should really be
In spite of what they say,
I haven't run away...  so far...

CHORUS