Oceanographer Doing Just Fine lyrics

Do it well, be brief and be subtle and leave out the names.
I'll paint you in the best light that's possible, just you do the same.

We're sleeping in shoeboxes, holding our toes to the line,
bleeding for pennies, and choking on smoke for a dime.

You stayed there right by my bedside the night and the day.
They left our heads swimming with nightmares and dark with decay.

We're sleeping in shoeboxes, holding our toes to the line,
bleeding for pennies, and choking on smoke for a dime.

There's no one to borrow from, no one to ask for more time
so we're sleeping in shoeboxes, keeping our toes to the line.

But tell everybody back home that we're doing just fine,
smoking fat cigars and drinking fine bottles of wine.
Be careful, the daylight will surely leave all of us blind,
and tell everybody back home that we're doing just fine.