Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song You're Trailing Yourself, artist - Kevin Devine. Album song Kevin Devine Live at Maxwell's 02/08/2006, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня
Date of issue: 07.02.2006
Record label: Kevin Devine
Song language: English
You're Trailing Yourself |
The sputter and blink of the streetlamp |
Makes you taller, then shrinks you, then splits you in half |
So you’re trailing yourself on the walk to the payphone |
Your pockets weighted down with quarters |
And the hope that no one’s home |
You spray paint cinnamon on vines |
And key the cars you pass by |
Your ears burn and your voice don’t sound right |
So you spend the next week playing weekend |
Rolling three-man alone in the dark in your kitchen |
Your apartment can’t talk, so it’s safe for your secrets |
All the stories you’ve invested with a masochist’s |
menace and meaning |
Those tired tricks that you play |
To graft a life to your name |
And you know it’s not yours, but for now it’s okay |
You wake and cut your initials in cheap glass |
To mark a space for yourself when your time here has passed |
And you’re drifted and done, trading danger for distance |
And all those rocks that rope your neck are finally nameless |
and weightless and faceless |
You’ll strip the sting from those stains that bleed the life |
from your face |
And your cheeks’ll burn red on that pure, perfect day |