Credits
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Nettles
Songwriter
Songteksten
She came without calling ahead
I slept on the floor and the girls shared the bed
(Fair play)
You promised she'd only stay a few days
Then it's back to her country house two states away
But they sent me a letter
That said she's not welcome there anymore
I've been checking on my sources
And the general report is
She's fond of lighting torches
And blowing them out
All the gossip on the porches
And the talk in all the churches
Is white as a forest of birches
Drier than drought
Loud as a shout
Empty as doubt
You sing when your spirits are sunk
I like to sit in the dark and get drunk
(Fair play)
I came home late, wasn't looking to fight
Still, I ran your poor sister out into the night
But I was all thunder, no lightning
(All bark and no bite)
This city's got alleys, side streets, and dead ends
But they hid all the highways to keep us all in
Stuck in the slums with your kin...
Who puts drapes on the lamps
And takes bath after bath
Like the world is her raincloud
Her faucet and tap!
Her own private ocean
And we're just swimming laps!
Well, the ocean will have what it craves
I'll win your love or roll you in my waves
And you say you don't mind when it rains?
I'll blot out your sunlight and swallow your planes!
I threw the radio
(My first mistake)
Then my hands got to flailing
Caught you in their wake
You cried and composed yourself
Counting to ten
While I begged from the street
For you to let me back in!
Now I sit on the curbside and cuss
I ain't the mountain I thought that I was
(Fair play)
Writer(s): Nettles
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