Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Wasn't I Paying Attention, artist - Amanda Shires. Album song To the Sunset, in the genre Фолк-рок
Date of issue: 02.08.2018
Record label: Silver Knife, Thirty Tigers
Song language: English
Wasn't I Paying Attention |
I just had the strangest day of my life |
Worse than the last week with my first wife |
I let John borrow my truck |
He said he needed to get some stuff |
To pay some bills |
Nome ain’t a city, it’s barely a town |
For a place so pretty, it could bring you way down |
He kept his huntin' knife titanium-clipped |
To a nylon belt set high on his hip |
For self-defense |
It was a regular mornin' |
No red flags or warnings |
No, nothin' suspicious |
Wasn’t I payin' attention? |
I didn’t see the full gas can he’d set in the seat |
I just nodded and tossed him the keys |
Did I see shakin' in his hands? |
Was he makin' darker plans |
Than usual? |
John had been clean for over a year now |
We all thought he was in the clear now |
But it wasn’t God talkin' to him that day |
It was a beast that never goes away |
It sleeps in your brain |
It was a regular mornin' |
No red flags or warnings |
No, nothin' suspicious |
Wasn’t I payin' attention? |
Every Sunday was another doomsday |
He’d say «Last Judgement’s not far away» |
He talked about evil in his blood |
He spoke of fire, he spoke of floods |
That’s how he was |
It was a regular mornin' |
No red flags or warnings |
No, nothin' suspicious |
Wasn’t I payin' attention? |
It was a regular mornin' |
No red flags or warnings |
No, nothin' suspicious |
Wasn’t I payin' attention? |
John drove my truck down to the square |
He thought he would end it all right there |
He took off his coat, doused himself in gas |
Slit his own throat, climbed back into the cab |
And lit the match |