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we took that long drive up
to where our folks spent all their time
back when they were
as young as we are now
pawned all our hopes
and the rest that we could find
and spent it all on ruining our lives
my thoughts weren’t any clearer
than the whisky in my glass
days weren’t any brighter than the nights
our voices were as broken
as the promises we left
and those weren’t half as bad
as those we kept
on the night we left
my eyes were just as blue then
but yours weren’t quite as black
and I never got a chance to take it back
the summer dress you ripped apart
the night that summer left
was still in rags upon your back
on the night we left
we took that long drive up
to where our folks spent all their time
back when they were just as young
as we are now
pawned all our hopes
and we never bought them back
on the night we left
For my sins he got me a new friend
who’s living inside of me now
I can’t feed him nor kill him
he won’t tell me how
As much as I care for you sweetest
you’re just like the rest that I’ve had
And now that he got me a new friend
I can’t let you in
And when you go
he’ll be changing
the locks on my door
But don’t worry about me
I won’t be alone
he got me a new friend
I can’t let you in here no more
At dawn he wakes me up smiling
brings me breakfast in bed
He sent away all of my sweethearts
but I no longer care about them
I know that you sent me a letter
that he said that I’d better not see
For my sins he got me new friend
who’s living in me
And when you go
don’t you ever
come back here no more
For my sins he got me new friend
and if I’ll be living alone
He will always be with me
He’s living inside of me
he’s a one man band
his own man
has nowhere
to rest his head
cold in the morning
evening ties
bands between lovers
that sadness found
and molly
if you take me home tonight
I will promise
to be faithful all the time
and molly
if you take me home tonight
I will promise
to be with you ‘til I die
Sometimes
my vision's almost clear
I can see past
my worries and my fears
And for a short time
I thought they'd let me walk
but now it's in my blood
living in my bones
When the guilt strikes
aim for its good eye
Or it will eat you alive now
and spit you back out
In your dark times
when the guilt strikes
I know what it feels like
to have no one on your side
There's someone on my heels
walking me home
Always right behind me
when I think that I'm alone
But vanishes in the street light
when I turn around
There's a stranger on my bed side
looking down
If you would be coming home
would I even know you anymore
You say your ways will be changing soon
I look the same but I'm changing too
On the darkest street
far out of sight
I buried you deep
but you're a ghost in this town
And on our bedroom floor
in the middle of the night
I still hear you barefoot walking down
to lay by my side
her life’s in boxes now
I keep on getting lost between them
I carry things around
I notice places I didn’t see then
strange
things just keep on moving
moving on
it’s like I barely notice
what’s going on
and every morning now
I wake up to this fever
moving things around
but in everything that’s left I see her
strange
things just keep on moving
moving on
it’s like I barely notice
what’s going on
all these memories shared between us
stuffed in boxes now
leave us
know the morning light will clean us
if we keep those boxes shut for now
and things will keep on moving
I will move on
soon enough I’ll notice
that she’s gone
