Hot Seat

Vic Chesnutt · About To Choke [2010]

Ventolin and Vivarin and primatene

Secret tequila shots and a patch of morphine

In the morning and in the throes

What a great day to come out of a coma

I've been in the hot seat sweating it out

Oh, sweating it out

Sweating it out, sweating it out

I touch the telephone it falls away

I think they call it empathy but not this way

I put my lips on the sound hole

My tongue is finally warming but my brain is charcoal

I've been in the hot seat sweating it out

Oh, sweating it out

Sweating it out, sweating it out

Not much later, fall out of favor

Pretty soon I know I'll do

Precisely what I wanted not to do

Maybe I slipped up and learned a lesson

To work my proclivity towards second guessing

I was too naive and enthusiastic to keep my trap shut

And my monkey in a mother fuckin' basket

I've been in the hot seat sweating it out

Oh, sweating it out

Sweating it out, sweating it out