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High Line Resurrection Blues in E Major

from Before I Go by Phil Cohen

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lyrics

If the sheets were clean we would never go
Let me on your better side, you can sip the bottle slow
If the sheets were clean we would never now
Let me on your mother's house
Get the lovers to kiss the thrown

I walk McKibben late and never would you find me doing well
I've been sleeping on a bed of stones
You pretend that you could never tell
My back is never straight and there's no water in the wishing well
Take a dream and burn it clean
Make it seem as though I never fell

I wish I saw you in the morning
Oh and never in the afternoon
But you're much to proud that you bought you life on Eden Street
Cause you're such a bore and you can't hide it with a silver spoon

If it's in the sheets its hard to find a lover in the folds
I've been dippin' through the High Line beams
I doesn't matter what the city holds
And it seems to me you always put my back against the wall
But I am in a darker light, I keep the colors of my night on call

I wish I saw you in the morning
And I pray that you don't leave soon
But that things that have now come and gone
You keep to make your army strong
But you're such a drag and you can't hide it with a silver spoon
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Another night I hang my head and pray the city isn't dead
We're only here for stories we don't need
And I'm not one to call us out, to say that's what we're all about
But I'd lose sleep to say that I didn't see

Bottles buried in the yard from kids that think they're getting hard
By burning books and racing in the streets
The city dolls up in a masquerade
and you won't see til your cards are played
But I will never let them take the best of me

I'm still young, but all my dreams sing to me in a foreign tongue
It's much too late to keep it straight
My better days have all been feigned
The sun goes down and then I'm on the run

Another day I stayed in bed, there's bullets shaking in my head
My soul's another mouth that I can feed
Downtown stalemate promenade
Where the rich are born and the lovers fade
And its not how it always was but now its how its gonna be

Bottles hang like weather vanes
The kids are catching westbound trains
And hang sweet nothings on the wall of days that came undone
Who to call when you can't be saved
When the sky goes out and the lights are paved
And everything you ever sing will never been unsung

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from Before I Go, released April 17, 2014

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