Triple Beam Lyrics - Machine Head

And there's no moral to the story 

Read the lines in between 

'Cause that's what happens 

When you balance life on a triple beam 

When you balance life on a triple beam 

I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a brick 

The violence in my life was a measuring stick 

And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between 

'Cause that's what happens 

When you balance life on a triple beam 

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I used to dream about the end 

And when it would come 

Drug dealers die young at the end of a gun 

Powders on the triple beam 

Girls around my neck 

No money? 

Well... she could always pay with sex 

Bikers tried to front me 30 grand worth of shit 

Knew that if I took it, I'd never get out of this 

What the fuck am I doing with amphetamines? 

But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam 

When you balance life on a triple beam 

My dealer trusted nobody 

Make you take a test 

See if you would rat him out or stab him in the chest 

He'd make you suck the Glass-Dick, called it "dragon's breath" 

Your heart would beat so fast 

Before your eyes life flashed 

Ain't easy to make cash 

Living off of meth 

It's a paranoid world 

Violent and mean 

But that's what happens 

When you balance life on a triple beam 

Paranoid, the gun is loaded 

Nose destroyed and mind corroded 

Rival dealers want me broken 

If I sleep, it's with one eye open 

They call it crank, speed, rosebud, methamphetamine 

They call it crank, ice, bathtub, methamphetamine 

At the AM/PM Shattuck and 51st 

1: 30 in the morning, streets at their worst 

My buddy started a fight, some dude by the pumps 

These black girls strolled up to watch 'em take their lumps 

Three cars rolled up, 15 dudes rolled out 

"You fuckin' with our girls?" 

(mouth runnin' like a spout) 

I threw the first punch, nose broke on my rings 

Now I'm fighting 4 dudes and my head's starting to ring 

Somebody screamed "Stop, he's got a knife, run!" 

Not everybody listened, all of us were drunk 

As I turned my head I saw my friend's knife blade 

Murder in his eyes, the devil in his veins 

He swung at the first, but then he missed 

2nd one got lucky, 3rd one took a hit 

The 4th got caught this time he wasn't missing 

Teeth grit down, survival of the fittest 

And he stabbed him, and he stabbed him 

And he stabbed him again 

Kill that motherfucker, let him never breathe again 

And there's no moral to the story 

Read the lines in between 

'Cause that's what happens 

When you balance life on a triple beam