Sister City - Ellis Island Blues lyrics

I have spent all my energy Collecting souvenirs that I can't keep I've got no place for them And besides my life's a mess I have spent the last few years In a semi-constant state of anger Bitterness and self disgust And don't tell me my just desserts Are waiting when I die Banking on eternity Is no way to live your life And I'm running towards what I need But there are taillights in front of me And I am running from what I know There is no place left for me to go So I wander like the ancestors That I've forsaken Where is my respect? If my great-great grandparents had only known That their great-great grandson Would end up turning people into stone You think they'd have set a f**ing foot onto that boat? I don't, I don't And don't tell me my just desserts Are waiting when I die Banking on eternity Is no way to live your life And I'm running towards what I need But there are taillights in front of me And I am running from what I know There is no place left for me to go And don't tell me my just desserts Are waiting when I die Banking on eternity Is no way to live your life Life is what you make of it And I am on the verge of something big I have seen a sinner's life and d**h Stuck a finger in god's face and lived So I tell my story, absent glory Sacrificial lamb and nervous twitch I can see myself in celebration Giving what is finally mine to give