Vulture Street

By now you know that I never arrived
I was too tired to move
I was gonna invent an elaborate excuse
But I'm tired of them too

Little pockets of air in the atmosphere
Make it easy to breathe
So farewell to unpleasant scenes
I want you to stay stay stay

The blinding flash of circling stars
You played your faux renaissance card
To starry eyes and wild applause
Its not your destination
So something something better happen

Who'd you say is you?
Where'd you say you hide your proof?
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon

If you meet me in the morning, gonna make my day
The shy will fall and the planets swoon
Feel like tommorrow coming up real soon

Gonna bend and shake it loose
Use whatever gets you through
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon

Happy memories I remember
Home spun remedies for stormy weather
Juggling scissors in the afternoon
Picking up signs from across the room

If you live your life like a castaway in the
hold tucked neatly away...

There's a truth begging to be told as the blues grab and take a hold
To continue like this only acts as a force for no good

I just want to say that I miss you and I've felt pitiful since you've been gone
I'm just trying to say I need something I can lean against
So I'm going to steady myself on a reliable friend

There's a weight dragging through my days that I spend trying to fill the space
That's been there since the day that we parted and made our goodbyes

There's a truth begging to be told as the blues grab and take a hold
And I just can't believe when i wake up that you could be gone

Your gentle pace provides a rhythm for the unwashed few of us
lock and loaded past is a prison for the crimes of the universe
Are you in the situation to decide whether you really care
C'mon you know that its hard to complain about the way you live

So please don't let it roll right by you
Just think if the same thing happened to you
Would you be
Would you be
Happy to walk in my shoes
Would you be
Would you be
Happy to walk in my shoes

I'm already tired of your chronic compassion fatigue
The final turd in the dungheap of every post modern disease
Well do you have the information to decide whether you really care
Its hard to belive you'd look me in the eye and turn away again

Baby I've got you on my mind, honey you wont ever know
How much I need you by my side, promise you wont ever go
I won't take no from you this time
Baby I've got you on my mind

'Cause honey I've got to show (I won't wait for another day)
Just what I can do (My heart died when you loosed the chains)
Because I think I know (I won't wait for another day)
What you're going through (My heart died when you loosed the chains)
I hope you feel it the way I feel it, I hope you feel it the way I feel it too

So if I had this all my way, honey you won't ever know
I'd be there through every night and day, promise you won't ever go
Baby I've got you on my mind

Despite the miseries
And the constant lessons learned from history
The pattern still repeats
Never to surrender don't you ever repeat

How far have we really come?
Until the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
Make peace your resolution tonight

There's an arms race to be run
Building bigger better dagger headed bombs
So lets drink to the daughters and sons
Never to return to their mother's arms

For every battle lost and won are these the ones that we offer up?