| It’s a new kind of empty, a beach town in the fall.
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| It’s new kind of silent, counting cracks in the wall. |
| There’s no one left to
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| call.
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| I’m locked in a jail cell. |
| It’s a quarter past three.
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| I can make out the weather on the lobby TV. |
| It’s gonna rain this week.
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| But I’m a pair of black eyes
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| That just got my ass kicked in the glow of an exit sign.
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| The cops got some friendly advice,
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| Says, «You don’t want problems with the crew that runs with those guys.»
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| Bloodied up in a bar fight.
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| No one’s pressing charges. |
| I should get out by ten.
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| The bartender said I was defending a friend. |
| Yea, they jumped a guy I paint
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| houses with.
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| The cops all got questions — is there somewhere you could stay?
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| I wore out my welcome at mom’s place in May. |
| I don’t know what she’d say.
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| And I don’t talk to my sister much. |
| I think she’s sick of my shit.
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| She lives up in Boston now. |
| Has a life with her husband and kid.
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| I try not to fuck with it.
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| But I’m just a pair of black eyes
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| That just got my ass kicked in the glow of an exit sign.
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| The cops got some friendly advice,
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| Says, «I would skip town before I ran back into those guys.»
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| Bloodied up in a bar fight.
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| I can’t bother Mom. |
| I can’t bother Catherine.
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| I can’t breathe through my nose. |
| I think that it might be broken.
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| I’m mastering the art of disappearing in the middle of the night.
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| Bloodied up in a bar fight. |