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Spirits & Champagne
03:39
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"hey there, are you blushing?" a stranger says to me
I dressed too warm for Denver
it's put color in my cheeks
she held a glass of champagne
her eyes went through my skull
sometimes when you're lonely you don't get seen at all
but tonight I met Lily and her black Mercedes-Benz
well everyone's a stranger here and I'm this stranger's friend
she came down from Chicago
to get closer to the sun
she said "Tom, I love it here and it's only been a month"
I want to meet her on those peaks there
leave this homebody behind
find some Rocky Mountains with a Jersey state of mind
and those fire pits were glowing beneath the second-hand smoke
I should've been studying her curls but I was thinking about home
smoking Spirits reading star signs
I swear to god sometimes I don't know how to think
do you remember the bartender at Club Curtis?
I swear to god she looks just like my shrink
Lily passed out in her bedroom
and I slept on the couch
woke up with a dry head, left a note, and then walked out
well cry me a river of sake
my blood is whiskey from Japan
you're a leather-clad wolf-woman
I'm a fragile, wandering man
here's to Spirits and to champagne
and to never feeling lost
does it count as an Irish exit if they never leave your thoughts?
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Wretched
03:03
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parking lot grit's blowing in my eyes
man, I really tied one on last night
by the cocaine drip I've been bested
I'm nauseous and the heartburn's hot
should've brought my shades but I forgot
there's plenty boys like me but none quite as wretched
Jay scored a dime on the bar's back porch
so, this is what that knife is for
taking bumps on bumps in the bathroom stall
Lainey's got the adderall
just as blue as her bedroom wall
there's plenty boys like me but few so wretched and small
quit smoking cigarettes like 40 times
quit the 41st time earlier tonight
but the night is smooth like Virginia Blends
I'm a Marlboro boy not a Marlboro man
I'm like Joe Camel but charmless and bland
so this is just to say, "can I bum one from you, my friend?"
woke up in a rain soaked tent
my head is full of wet cement
thinking I'm on the wrong side of the grass
I can't make coffee but Pabst is fine
hope is like a kid's balloon lost, floating in the sky
there's plenty boys like me but this boy too shall pass
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Liberty & Prosperity
02:49
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I let you down in a highway town
where the stars are satellites
while I stand I'll do what I can
to make you forget those nights
with thoughts revealed on barren field
your heart was made of glass
and you keep cleaning that shattered mess
of wounds bound in the past
you're falling but I won't catch you
you're calling but I can't hear you
you've left my arms bruised and broken with a ringing in my ears
this is your final last chance
to escape your child's love trance
it's high time
you've had mine
and now I'm running out
self-deceit and body-heat
these bandages don't last
I left you in that time and place
I like to call my past
was it sin to let you in?
did you get tangled, too?
in my chest an unwelcome guest:
a heart still beating for you
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On The Moon
03:34
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how dare you throw me in the river to drown again
run away and show my heart to all your friends
and how dare you leave me too full to float on
driftwood eyes in an ocean
I'll hold on loose
do you write the tides or do the tides write you?
I only want to write about you with a purple pen
I only wanna hold your hand a little longer, too
when I'm all out of ink and we get to the gate again
I'll see us hand in hand on the moon
Melissa, let's trade eyes
won't you show me how a poet sings?
I'm stumbling over everything
oh, Melissa, where's the line?
from the Longfellow Bridge to some day in the Fall
from that look in your eyes I can see it all
or not
if I stare too long will the driftwood rot?
my ribs ache with our laughter
my knees shake as our days pass
I've got a hot, candle wax heart
how about you?
they said "love is infinite but time is not"
and maybe we'll find the facts
or maybe we'll find ourselves on the moon
and I want to look out at the world
through the gap in the teeth of your smile
I want to look out to September coming soon
the way I see it we've got a little while
and after that I'll see you on the moon
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