Cold nights
It's always Winter here.
It seems this season's stretching on all year.
The beers are gone
so let's get walking.
Grab
your coat and let's do some talking.
Loud, through the night.
Know our strides will crunch through old snow
beneath old street signs.
Best
bets aside,
did you gamble
on my days?
Did I waste your time?
Days come early,
nailguns out.
Walls go up and ambitions drown.
4 blocks down the street, you're screaming,
"**** the cold and this town. I'm leaving."
Sheetrock walls
and paycheck borders
keep us pinned,
in line, on short order.
Cook
our melting brains.
Froze in place
and broke your heart, rinsed me down the drain.
Cold nights
It's always Winter here.
This frigid season's stretching on all year.
The beers are gone
so let's get walking.
Grab
your coat 'cuz them ghosts been talking.
Howling each day.
Haunting all our snowbound steps and
rattling their chains.
Alarms and cars
and pulsing hearts.
Cheapest
prices paid to make
our wage.
The clocks in bars
count tarnished stars.
Cheapest
prices paid to pave
our ways.
Best
bets aside,
did you gamble
on my days?
Did I waste your time?
Days come early,
nailguns out.
Walls go up and ambitions drown.
2 blocks down the Ave., I'm shouting,
"**** the wind and the snow that's pounding."
Rent check walls
and sheetrock borders
keep us pinned,
in line, on short order.
Cook
our melting brains.
Froze in place
and broke my will, rinsed you down the drain.
And I'll move
4 blocks
next Spring...