Flicker Flame

Roommate - Flicker Flame

Busted screens and rusted cars*

Flaking paint and razorwire

Porch swing sways in a twisted rain

Scorched my face in a flicker flame

Somebody told me

This world was mine

They lied they lied

Somebody sold me

A new family line

It died it died

Somebody hold me

It's so cold tonight

it's so cold

it's so cold

please hold please hold me tigh

Heavy hands and feathered tongues

I think I saved the band

when I ate our young

Until I lost our plans

in a bargain bin

Now I'll be damned

but I don't know when

Somebody told you

the past was gone

they were wrong wrong

Everyone knows you

and your protest songs

well right on right on

Nobody owes you

for your righteous rage

You got paid you got paid

you got paid move on move on

move on move on

Rusted dreams and busted bones

Love songs screamed into telephones

Futures lost in a summer spell

Summer's past and it's just as well

Summer's past and it's just as well

Summer's past and it's just as well