'a modern He's Leaving Home'
d-d-d-dorio
We Suck Young Blood
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Story behind the song
well i really wanted to write a better song lyrically than the last one, because i got a bit of shtick off some people on a songwriting forum i frequent... how sad is that... see what you've done to me, gravity??? are you happy Now???
Lyrics
Felt the rush of early morning on the windscreen
It was the moment before life begins and takes the peace away
In a slick black buick I was racing out of town
In the sun; a loner on the freeway
Left a letter in the kitchen by the toaster
In a harmless yellow envelope, so the children wouldn’t see
Told my office I was feelin’ bad – I’d call them in the week
Cut the ties; escaped into anonymity
I’m happy on my own
That house was never home
I wasn’t made to tow the line and do as I am told
The silence in the air
The rear-view mirror’s glare
You might have seen my face but I was never really there
In clear blue light
I run from all the noise
As father dies
And turns into a voice
Your sunset eyes
Could never understand
My perfect life
My head beneath the sand
In the sun
I begin
By the evening I was passing California
Saw the dark and empty beaches gently stretching out to sea
Let the phone ring out, like a scream upon the wind
I was gone; a cruel, lingering memory
I awoke to find my body in a motel
The blurry dawn amnesia pictured you right by my side
Paid the bill, hit the road again, still groggy from the night
I was free; I didn’t see the headlights
You’ll find another guy
Some other brain to fry
But bitterness is pointless in the crystal, Nashville sky
The letter in the fire
More smoke upon the pyre
The shame of Ms. avoided now this widow is for hire
In clear blue light
I run from all the noise
As father dies
And turns into a voice
Your sunset eyes
Could never understand
My perfect life
My head beneath the sand
In the sun
I begin
