(RIFF)
A# Eb
Excuses pour out so easily and I've never had a trouble
with the frequency.
A#
But it needs a mate to calm me down,
Eb A# Eb A#
postcards and phones calls to a long distance small town.
(RIFF)
A#
And I've never been good with secrets to keep,
Eb
but I can lie white, right through my teeth.
A# Eb
That current takes us, and we breathe it in.
A# Eb
Mistakes in old friends to a short coming, quick end.
A# A#
An empty-eyed blank stare at an atlas,
Eb A# Eb
I'm lost without a map or compass.
A# Eb
And I revise and I rewrite.
A# Eb A# Eb
I'm drowning in long nights, late drives with old ghosts,
Eb
I'm an index of footnotes.
A# Eb
And I'm sick, sick, sick of my complaining, that rhetoric
that I've been writing.
A# Eb
That blood red bled from ink to pen, I'm blue/black
backwards, I am paper thin.
(RIFF plays softer towards the end)