Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Long Story Short, artist - The Avett Brothers. Album song Closer Than Together, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 03.10.2019
Record label: American Recordings;
Song language: English
Long Story Short |
Here I am standing, ten feet between us |
Beside me, the door that I just came through |
Where I walked past an overweight cop in an alley |
With a beer gut bursting from a bullet proof jacket |
Who thinks to himself, «I've got to get back |
To the man that I was when I was a dreamer» |
With a partner in crime named Brandy McGill |
A girl with a love of life bigger than normal |
Who still wonders when her life will begin |
Her best friend Maria who seems to have everything |
Tells her she probably just needs a vacation |
Away from the stress of her husband’s vocation |
While Maria is talking, Brandy is drifting |
Staring at John who just got the job |
Busing tables to pay for Community College |
An Associates degree in x-ray technology |
John is too old to still be in college |
He doesn’t like class and sometimes doesn’t go |
Long story short, his family was broken |
He was freed from a past life as a kid on Skid Row |
He notices Brandy, but stares at Maria |
Her beauty well-practiced in casting a spell |
Imagining her naked, he spills dirty dishes |
On the lap of an elderly woman named Belle |
A lady who won’t live to see her next birthday |
But shares a warm smile regardless of that |
The mess that unfolds completely surrounds her |
Not one bit of urgency enters her soul |
She reaches for Roy, her husband forever |
In love and connection, her small hand, he holds |
And nothing comes of it but a managers' anger |
Not for the mess, but her father’s remark |
About a bad grade that she had as a child |
So she takes her revenge out by firing John |
Who now wonders when his life will begin |
Ain’t it confusing to search for the will |
And learn when you find it that you’ve lost your way? |
Long story short, he saw a commercial |
That said that the 20s are the prime of your life |
But that doesn’t seem to be true at this moment |
As he cleans out his locker and calls his best friend |
Who’s too busy to talk cause he’s prepping with lawyers |
To keep money from his ex-wife, the mother |
Of their only son who’s naturally drawn |
To guns and sharp objects who now has no father |
Except for on weekends, two times a month |
No need to worry, I’m told we’re protected |
By the men passing laws in the House and the Senate |
From people who mix up the truth and reality |
With movies and games and ridiculous scenarios |
Long story short, best I can tell |
Children can’t be left to raise themselves |