wake up day after day, burned out.
everything's the same.
will I try this time?
or are my efforts inadequate?

Bare feet slide across 3 am kitchen floors
You were up all night
Playing detective with one glass eye
And relief came in the morning
With sloppy haircuts
And old t-shirts

Stay in old apartments with ghosts in the walls
Church bells and airplanes
Try to roll you

Chicago steals the stars in the sky
At least it's willing to share
Thanks for keeping me in mind
But i think i'll stay in tonight

No more bike rides late at night
No more walks home under streetlights

But those lights wake you up
When the trains put you to sleep</

You advance with your head turned back
What you see is behind you
Do your journeys take place only in the past?

Because the past changes according
To the route you follow

Each new city, you'll find again a past you did not know you had

In foreign, unpossessed places

Clouds hang over creaking glass,
Power lines strung above.
These streetlights hum this city's song.
When i stand there, this is mine.
When i am there, this is home.

It's not clear what's outside
To draw you and others there
A search for what you don't have
Maybe you weren't meant to find it
Close the door, lock the gate
We've got everything we need

A pattern of leaving and moving
You're still empty-handed

(what we have is

Kicked out of the lighthouse
For sinking all your ships
These summer fences are getting taller
So let's climb up them while we can
So I'll move back when I move on
And roll out the carpet for all your problems
My eyes don't leave the ground
But I still trip on the cra

I can't breathe this stale air
The walls are closing in
The lamp is burned out
I haven't slept in weeks

Dressers decorate the walls
I hope they hold
The doors are off their hinges
I haven't been back since

The light peeks through the cracks
53 days in this

A front room with wooden floors
Lights are flashing
An office with wooden doors
Walls are crumbling
A basement with wooden stairs
They're breaking
This old house is creaking
So i'll stay outside

Drag me in
It's too cold to stay out here

Times we rememb

So keep telling me these stories
I swear i'll listen and not be jealous
Grow up, go out, work on what matters
I swear i'll listen and not be bitter

I can't decide quite yet what i should do next
So just let go of these old hopes and hold on to new regrets

If i could g

Alone with all the things that i've done
Living and thinking in minutes
My small days spill into light years
Now i can pretend to live a life of starting over
Forget what i used to be

There are dead stars whose light is trapped forever in time
How can i stand inside the

It's 5 again, the air is thin.
No sunlight through my window.
An early drive to give up my time
And think about getting out of these 4 walls.
Long roads, late nights,
One more month to go.
Let's leave this place.
Long august days have gone away,
And the nights of

We threw out the fall
We knew it'd still be there when we moved
There's no mountains in this neighborhood
But the view from this roof isn't bad

The same songs never sound old
When they're played on your car radio

This last chorus won't last the ride
So we'll get o

Hand over this city,
Days are long
But the nights belong to us.

The stars came out to send you off,
A long walk and a short conversation.
One last chance to admit that our something
Was really more than nothing.
And with a glance, this is the last time
For you to see how much this meant to me.
Say goodbye.
You never would, you nev

It's alright for now,
Forget about this past year.
A list of my mistakes
Hangs in the back of my head.
Here's another chance
To make them all again.
Snow falls, i'll get one more clean slate.
We'll talk about how we'll change
But we will never follow through.