
Date of issue: 09.05.2019
Record label: Hopeless
Song language: English
Rosa & Reseda |
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room |
In the plastic patio chairs that the last tenant left |
I came to Reseda for the cheap rent and the distant listless gloom |
I answered a Craigslist ad for a roommate, Rosa was it |
She waits tables on the weekdays |
Picks up any shift she can |
I paint houses that I can’t afford to live in |
Scraping by with what we’ve got to pay the rent |
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room |
And I play her the songs that I wrote last year when things got dim |
And her boyfriend’s a real great guy |
He works down at the Jiffy Lube |
They teach me Spanish at night |
We eat what she takes from her shift |
They both think that I can be something if I try |
They come out to all the open mics |
He’s looking around to help me find a van that I could buy |
She waits tables on the weekdays |
Picks up any shift she can |
I paint houses that I can’t afford to live in |
Scraping by with what we’ve got to pay the rent |
And Mom wants to know how sunny California is |
Says the Island’s been cold, it sounds like she’s over it |
Tells me Catherine’s moving home, her husband’s been pretty sick |
There’s a Doctor they hope has better luck diagnosing him |
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room |
Well the lease is up and we’ll never see that deposit again |
Rosa’s moving in with her boyfriend |
I’m going to drive off somewhere new |
When I so desperately needed a friend |
Rosa was a friend |
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