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Rockstar
you drive me around your hometown like someone
who's gonna leave soon & not come back
or somebody who's afraid they might die here
you leave your keys in the car & we get out to walk
Chorus:
you say all the pretty fishes know how it is in the mill pond
in the end they all swim low & away too
you say you haven't seen a pretty fish in years, & i say -
look at your face in the water, dear
but you're so low down you don't see what i do
look at you
&
y'know, this town seem kinda nice the way you tell it
all your stories rest heavy in my bones
everything you say weighs more than i do
the slow hills & the buildings
your Papa & your 12-year-old self too
Chorus
then
you're done talking, you're more like dreaming
& there's nothing left to say anyway
so let me sing you to sleep, let me carry you home
to all your familiar things
Chorus
&
all your familiar things
hey look at you, hey look at you, hey look at you
& all your familiar things
Amy
Amy
looks up to me
she says - that's fine if Eternity is something like
baby singing in the cradle
my man, all he wanted was the rib back
i wouldn't budge on that
& look where it got me
in
this season of sorry there's plenty of dust for all of us
Amy's voice is cracking
the moon is an orange tooth in the bottom of her water glass
& we're stunned here
beneath the circling fan,
twinned & broken & still hoping
(twinned & broken & still hoping)
Shiloh
i
have nothing to offer
i have faith in the inevitable
Amy's got patience of the saints she don't believe in
i have no magic
my hands crave friction
my hands shake
weather's never gonna break
gonna be cloudless forever
Shiloh
Test Pattern
take
me home
i've got things to do
& i've been watching my back
have you been watching too?
Brother, i'm tired
& there's time i can't account for
here in your livingroom
lost in your books & magazines
Chorus:
all these days
i've been scrambling through your pages
leave me inksore & bone tired
thankyou
for the gasoline that brought me here
& your talk & your tea too
your history's beautiful
all the places that you've been
i just need to be on my own
i need to sleep alone tonight
dream by myself
for a little while
Chorus
i
arrive
on the edge of your nightstand
like the weather could explain me away
you take me in
& hold me
i'm beholden to you but i can't stay
i'll
say i'm sorry in the car
play with my keys
kiss you before i leave
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