How Does It Feel? [Shaw/Blades featuring Tommy Shaw]

How Does It Feel
Written by Tommy Shaw & Jack Blades
Lead Vocals by Jack Blades

Lying in an open grave
I didn't do it
Sign says you'd better get set
I wonder who they are talking to

Down to the hole in your pocket
Way down in the valley
Go nothing but time to spend
I guess you gonna waste that, too

Easy money
Is that what you need?
Pretty little people surround you as you bleed
Bonnie with a whip and chains
Bonnie won a cracker
So pretty but she got no brains
Don't you want her number, too

How does It feel to be used?
Easy to win when there is nothing to lose
How can you feel when it's over and time to go home?

Throwing money down a deep black hole like it doesn't matter
You tell me it belongs to you
Who you think you're talking to?
Slow dancing in a whiskey haze

Ah, year, you're the victim
Keep it up
Keep it up all night
Till you wake up and you're someone new
Hey, hey

So close the window
Black out the day
I see your peace of mind
It's going the other way

How does It feel to be used?
Easy to win when there is nothing to lose
How can you feel when it's over and time to go home?
People know it's closing time, hotel, motel time

How do you know what to feel
Sucked into a world where so little is real
Someday you'll awake to discover it's time to go home

Maybe you're somebody, ooh
Somebody you'll wake up to find
You're never alone

This was a bonus track on the Japanese release.  If anyone has a copy and could provide a file, I would like to add it to this post so everyone could hear it.

Interpretation

Wasting time and money gambling. Hiring a prostitute. Getting drunk on New Year's Eve. "How does it feel to be used?"