Living Up To Let You Down

(Album: Figure - 2020)

Cut me loose, a nine hour excuse
A sunset visit to the reddest of states
It's new blues for the highway to choose
I-65 for when the hour is late

It's over or it's under
It's on the East side and it's the setting for getting better
Apply the brakes and clip a common mistake
It's not a problem just to sit here and wait

But don't you know what they're about?
Living up to let you down

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home
So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us

Bonfires. Who drives the desire
Between the suburbs and what's left of this place
Tattoos, new boots and a noose
Now just reminders of the city you hate

It's over or it's under
It's a disaster and we keep betting it's getting better
It's well spun for those who turn 21
But getting older doesn't brighten the bait

So don't you know what they're about?
Living up to let you down

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home

We just sing along
But the feeling's gone

I've got a couple dozen cities I could share with you
A couple stories we could tuck beneath a tennis shoe
A couple secrets we could hide between each others' hands
A couple moments we could squeeze between some other plans
We've got a couple different futures we could call our own
A shared apartment or just talking on the telephone
You'll move a block away and we'll go on with both our lives
In cold conditions with a past of alternating dives

Stiff drinks, abandoned before they sink
Another neighborhood to carefully drown
Farewell from the fever to tell
We need to move this to a new side of town

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home

And I'll sing along
But the feeling's gone

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home
So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us