Fall is fading in the city again
and I’m a decade past where I wanna be
Acerbic thought as an accelerant
and words as bombs for levity
Take me back into the city again
and I can show you I ruled this town
Build these tales into a small legend
and I’ll show you where they shot him down
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
Little matchsticks take the monuments down
and every day they’re making more
Smile at windows that you’ve been inside
where you know you felt the fire before
Circle ‘round it cos it’s fading fast
and the feeling’s never quite the same
There’s a picture in the back of my mind
but I can’t even remember the name
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
A small hole in my fishing net and every day it grows some more
And my haul is slipping back to the sea and to everyone else on shore
Winter’s harder in this city, but then
everything is harder these days
I have some friends who I’m sure wish me well
but resign themselves as set in their ways
Something’s building now deep inside me
and I’m a moth going to the flame
I got the match and the motive now
but I can’t even remember the name
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
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