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LAX
02:41
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i found god on a pull-out couch
under hanging lamps in your hotel house
he said, "we’ve all been got"
so let’s just lay in bed for now cause any second we could fall apart
i’m learning to lose sleep on train rides to 5th street
midnights with your monday friends
you asked me last weekend if i’d still marry you, well I do
three hour rides in the middle of the night
on bedside eyes and mountain time
i got trapped in the cracks of your red lipstick
but the city’s just a friend and I do what I can to keep falling in
what do you pray for us to be?
you spill yourself all over me
i woke up gold in the corner of our home
i watched you sleep in disbelief that you were lying next to me
you are my stone my soul my sleep
tell me that you'd still marry me
let’s climb the garden wall tonight and put the stars back in the sky
worn down stones become our lives
but the city's just a friend and I do what I can to stop falling in
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Citylights
03:13
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i can see lights for miles from my seat in the sky
the city streets hum like a neon sign
but tonight fluorescent lines say closed
my bags in the trunk, tires warm on the road
gold leaf books and stained windows
it's been six days it's time to let go
you’re looking for a hospital but this is a bar
and it's closing-time now, i don't handle last calls
so take your terminal faith and put your crisis of space into place
with the words i've written down.
because i will wait for you
and slide into the walls you do
my heart hangs to dry under these city lights
the ever absent space in your front room
i live in your perfume
scented stone eyes watch the room
when i wake up i’m tripping
you know i’d rather be slipping back down this iron rod to you
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cash-only tire shop and old hotel
breathing in the ash they sell
a mountain of treads and i drove around the block again
like fairgrounds
seasonal prescription clouds
pitch their tents outside of town
every year they hang around
hang your hoodies out
throw the windows down
rental signs spring up once again
the end of last year came too soon
we’re all waiting on good news
i’ll keep my better days around
rollin’ with my windows down
i wake up alone in coffee shops
empty bars, and parking lots
it hangs around
i sleep walk through the holidays
cold fronts get the best of me when it’s around
it always seems to catch me when i’m down
i drove around the block again
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