Bob Mould › Lyrics › Taking Everything

This fever on my mind, I'm burnin' 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 makin' 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 everythin'
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 makin' 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 makin' 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, now
In taking everything from me, now