Taking Everything - Bob Mould

This fever on my mind / I’m burning down inside

My luck may never change / or so it seems that way

I know in seven years / this curse will disappear

Where has my ladder gone?

I feel like I’ve been robbed

In taking everything from me now

I’m making over what I hoped to be, I know

This is my only folder left with all these words

You’ve taken everything from me now

You take my license plates / you’ve taken everything

The place where I belong / you take all my songs

You’ve taken what I wanted / the few things that I kept

I turned around to help someone / and then you helped yourself

In taking everything from me now

I’m making over what I hoped to be, I know

This is my only folder left with all these words

You’ve taken everything from me now

So take away the skin / you scratch until you win

And in this lottery / what is the prize for me?

I’d give you anything / but I can’t match this happiness

What’s right or wrong / where do I belong?

In taking everything from me now

I’m making over what I hoped to be, I know

This is my only folder left with all these words

You’ve taken everything from me now

Where has my ladder gone?

you take all my songs

Where do I belong?

In taking everything from me