She lives alone in the streets of the city
She can't go home, 'cause it sure ain't pretty
She needs a fix, but the price is heavy
She sells her soul, her mind, and her body

When she's livin' on the bottom of the world
When she's livin' on the bottom of the world

Night creeps and the neon starts shinin'
Big Jim and the bike he's ridin'
The beer pours; Man, he's just smilin'
He turns it over 'till the booze starts drivin'

Livin' on the bottom of the world
Oh, you're livin' on the bottom of the world

And now, don't you know that there's nothin' left
To hold me down from where I've wept
It was that way, it was that way forever
You can't change the mind of everyone
For me, the time has just begun
Let it stay that way, stay that way forever

They know that it ain't worth cryin'
No matter how you live, you end up dyin'
You soul burns, or is heaven worth findin'
Your luck turns, you can't always roll seven
Your heart beats, that's the life you're livin'
Your heart beats, that's the life you're given
When you draw your breath, that's the life you're livin'
Your heart beats, that's the life

Livin' on the bottom of the world
Oh, you're livin' on the bottom of the world

And now, don't you know that there's nothin' left
To hold me down from where I've wept
It was that way, it was that way forever
You can't change the mind of everyone
For me, the time has just begun
Let it stay that way, stay that way forever