The Streets (feat. Alaska Sun)

They’re gonna write us down in history

For all our missing parts and all our chipping teeth

All our hidden scars and all our injuries

For how we still smiled when we were incomplete

Cuz yesterday morning I fought sleep

On a bed in New York where the floor creaked

And I would climb up to my roof

To see the view from it as proof

That really nothing’s as broad as it all seems

For the volcanoes in our chests

Exploding situations we were patient to accept

Quotes from broken novels we love

But we’ll forget about

We’re the saddest characters alive

Who left the endings out

I can’t flinch

The problem with looking back is

The place you wanna land drifts

Damn yeah but the fact is

Someday I'll move on from this

And twenty years of life will only be a story

I tell to my grand kids

When we come home

They’ll name the streets after us

But I don’t think we’ll come home

Until the streets light up

Will you remember me

Will you remember me

When we come home

They’ll name the streets after us

And on the day they name the streets

They're gonna write us down in history

Getting over the trial

Of coded smiles and photo piles

Be open you know we're tired

Of riding so many miles

Here's to the holy souls

Of golden diner unspoken novelists

Stoned in closet swollen eyelid

Broken home revivalists

With smoking hands

We'll stand there holding rockets

Look I have felt them too

And we can mend this broken process

Let’s hope they close the roads and drive us home tonight

Before we turn to ghosts who won’t describe how lonely getting old has gotten

And that's all that it was

A couple scrapbook entries and the songs that we loved

For my accidental roads and my deep misunderstandings

My helicopter parents I was not prepared for landing

Till your ashtray dries in these bad news times

Till the feathers in our tattoos fly

Till my little brothers learn how to lie

Here's to all the things we haven't done

I'll stay up all night with you like the Alaska sun

When we come home

They’ll name the streets after us

But I don’t think we’ll come home

Until the streets light up

Will you remember me

Will you remember me

When we come home

They’ll name the streets after us

And on the day they name the streets

They're gonna write us down in history