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well the sun was cold, alkaline
morning creeping on the floor
hadn't slept, I felt fine
or about as finely as I felt before

asked the walls how were they holding up
they seemed surprised that I could talk
love to stay and chat and such
but it's getting early, I could use a walk

went up drexel, cottage, king, and
so through the city all squared and brown
all the stop signs were sadly singing
as I crossed the freeway to chinatown

couldn't see myself in the glass
of the store where they gave me a porcelain fish
I was thinking that over when somebody asked
hey friend, how long you been livin like this

and he gave me his terrible coat and he shook it out good
and he said I ought to get out of the city just the minute I could
and I tried to give it back but he was up and he was walking away
and he said you know it's better than nothin, not dirty just stained
oh, not dirty, just stained

suddenly noon, suddenly darkening
a patch of snow, a thousand blocks
only living people were looking for parking
and the only place open was the Music Box

they saw me walk in but nobody stopped me
into the theater, crouched in the back
waited an hour, the room filled softly
projector flipped on, faded to black

and there was a cave and a sky and a mosquito net
there were ghosts who watched themselves watch tv on their hotel bed
and when they went out into the night then I did the same
only then did it occur to me I turned nineteen that day
oh, nineteen years in a day

well I found the place where they bake the bricks
and where the trains run on the ground
and where they split the filthy crick
and the machine that makes the stars go out

then pulled up the casino bus
hop in, we've just been waitin on you
so I took my seat, slumped to sleep
and the ghosts on the freeway go two by two

and I thought of what to say if I woke up and I found you there
it's not like you're in the country but it doesn't hurt to be prepared
guess you'd ask me how it's been and I'd say a person can't complain
which is not the same as saying there are things that I would not change
and I've been feeling
not dirty, just stained

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from Ghosts Watch Themselves Watch T​.​V., released December 31, 2014

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