Clean-Up Crew

Drove across Nebraska for the fourth time in a year

The sky looked like a cracked phone screen

I saw an angel on a hill built on top of a landfill

Overlooking the mess I've made

So fuck the garden and the yard

I can barely tend to my own dreams

Maybe a big life isn't ours

Shot down in the middle of the street

Oh, you had me there for a second

I start to believe that we could make it

Just like life to come teach me a lesson

Every time I swear I forget it

I whistle while I work, but the work is gone

So let the clean-up crew just come eat me alive

You've been driving drunk, hoping you get caught

Living like you're nineteen in your mind

But you barter with yourself, running out of things to sell

To overcome the death in your eyes

So fuck the garden and the yard

You can barely tend to your own dreams

Maybe a big life isn't meant for us

Settle down on a quiet street and hope we don't give in

You had me there for a second

I start to believe that we could make it

Just like life to come teach me a lesson

Every time I swear I forget it

I whistle while I work, but the work is gone

So let the clean-up crew just come eat me alive

I'm seeing you in dreams

You're happy and healthy

Eager to talk after my surprise wedding

They're pushing back the dirt in Tennessee

You ask me, "Is this where you want to be?"

So fuck the garden and the yard

We can barely tend to our own dreams

Maybe a big life isn't ours

Shot dead in the middle of street

Oh, you had me there for a second

I start to believe that we could make it

Just like life to come teach me a lesson

Every time I swear I forget it

I whistle while I work, but the work is gone

So let the clean-up crew just come eat me alive

Eat me alive