I woke the same
As any other day except a voice was in my head
It said, “Seize the day
Pull the trigger, drop the blade and watch the rolling heads”

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar’s change
And gave it to the rich, yeah
The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch, yeah

Singin’ one more time around (I might do it)
One more time around (I might make it)
One more time around (I might do it)
One more time around (I might make it)
The day I tried to live, yeah

Words you say
Never seem to live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs, hey

Singin’ one more time around (might do it)
One more time around (might make it)
One more time around (I might do it)
One more time around (I might make it)
The day I tried to live, yeah
I tried

I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed
Eh-hey

The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs
And I learned that I was a liar
I learned that I was a liar
I learned that I was a liar
I learned that I was a liar

Singin’ one more time around (might do it)
One more time around (I might make it)
One more time around (might do it)
One more time around (I might make it)
The day I tried to live, live
Just like you
Just like you

One more time around (one more time around)
One more time around (one more time around)
–Soundgarden, “The Day I Tried To Live”–

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Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
–Matthew 15:19 (NKJV)–

¹ After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. ² And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them. ³ So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers. ⁴ And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
–Acts 18:1-4 (NKJV)–

Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
–1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)–

He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word.
–Ephesians 5:26 (NKJV)–

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
–Romans 12:2 (NKJV)–

Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
–John 17:17 (NKJV)–

Leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.
–Hebrews 6:1 (NKJV)–

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
–2 Corinthians 7:1 (NKJV)–

I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts.
–Hebrews 8:10 (NKJV)–

⁴³ When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. ⁴⁴ Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.
–Matthew 12:43-45 (NKJV)–

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ¹³ Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
–Philippians 3:12-14 (NKJV)–

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
–Matthew 5:8 (NKJV)–

Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
–2 Corinthians 6:17 (NKJV)–

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
–James 4:4 (NKJV)–

Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
–1 Corinthians 15:33 (NKJV)–

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
–1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV)–

⁹ I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰ Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
–1 Corinthians 5:9-10 (NKJV)–

The cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
–Revelation 21:8 (NKJV)–

My son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.
–Luke 15:24 (NKJV)–

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Arthur Gish, Beyond the Rat Race (Herald Press, 1973).

Dr. John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1946).

Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Sprinkle Publications, 1989).

John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (The Banner of Truth Trust, 2004).

John Bunyan, The Holy War (Whitaker House, 2001).