
Date of issue: 19.05.2016
Record label: Hopeless
Song language: English
Green Like the G Train, Green Like Sea Foam |
He invited me in; |
Said his name was Jesse and to take a look around |
I found my coat at the bottom of the closet, dug it out |
The only thing that she left |
There in the middle of the room, was the couch |
She’d always hated the pattern or the texture |
I can’t remember it now |
I relived those nights there breaking down |
I guess I’ll see myself out |
You kept me waiting like the G Train |
I held the door open for hours. |
I had to walk away |
I rode the A line out to Rockaway |
I’m always drawn to the water |
Walked the streets to the shore |
Passed by the murals fading off of the walls |
Still licking the fresh wounds from a hurricane in the fall |
And I watch them rebuild |
I hummed a Ramone’s song out of key |
Staring off at the skyline over shorebreak |
And remembering that this same ocean almost killed me |
South Carolina, seafoam green |
You kept me waiting like the G Train |
I held the door open for hours. |
I had to walk away |
I rode the A line out to Rockaway |
I’m always drawn to the water |
I felt the weight |
On a calendar long enough, all my grief starts to decay |
On a calendar long enough it grows more useless by the day |
And I read that on a calendar long enough |
New York will be returned to the sea |
When the water gets high enough, it’ll take back everything |
So the subway and the G Train |
Our apartment, all our memories |
Come to rest there under water |
All the things that I thought meant the most to me |
I try to picture it-- just the top of the skyline at low tide |
Piercing the surface as the ships try to navigate their lanes |
And there alone and triumphant on the crest of a wave |
Is the couch you gave away |
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