Seems like your heart stops working

The minute they close the curtain

You take off your mask and take off your costumeAnd if anyone asks, you′re taking a smoke break

You're drinking some coffee

But everyone knows what you′re doing

Seems like the bus moves slower

Just 'cause you got somewhere to go

So you take a few pills in Beverly Hills

But if anyone asks, you've got a prescription

You got an addiction

Who do you think that you′re fooling?

John Doe

I just want the John I know

Once you put the drinks on hold

Maybe, you could come back home

John Doe

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, uh

Everybody′s addicted to something

Everybody gotta grip onto something

Even if it's just to feel the response of appeal

Maybe once, maybe twice

Maybe hundreds of times, hundreds of times

Without it, it′s just harder to function at times

You race to the bottom of every single bottle

As if there was someone or something to find

You struggle in your mind and you tell yourself lie after lie

'Til you get to the point where it′s no longer private

The people that you work with noticed the signs

When you walk in the room, it gets noticeably quiet

So you break up the silence

You say you've been at the gym

But the way that you look, can′t blame on a diet

So what you hiding?

John Doe

I just want the John I know

Once you put the drinks on hold

Maybe, you could come back home

John Doe

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, yeah

I've probably had too many things, smashed too many freaks

Had too much to dro-, I mean had too much to drink

Left the club, ended up in custody

Random drug test, passed it luckily

My girl broke up wit' me ′cause she walked in suddenly

With a woman up under me

I told her "Wait, it ain′t what it look like

I must've slipped and fell, clumsy me!"

Well, at least I admit it

′Cause the worst you could do is to do it

And not be man enough to say that you did it

That's just how you prevent it

Well I ain′t no different, I love all the money, the fame

And the parties with beautiful women

I spent so much time as an underground artist

'Cause I was afraid to succumb to the business

And what I′d become

But that what you judge, you become

The path with the greatest resistance

That's how the tables can turn when they pivot

And change your perspective and flip your entire position

My whole life, I've been dying and wishing

To live and experience everything possible

When I told ′em my dreams, they just said "It ain′t logical"

Now, I can see it, it's optical

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

John Doe

I just want the John I know

Once you put the drinks on hold

Maybe, you could come back home

John Doe