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Loaded gun strapped to my chest
My heart beats 'neath a bulletproof vest
I'm shining my shoes, I'm going out tonight

Sit down at Frankie's, napkin on my knee
The food's as greasy as it ever used to be
I'm sitting at our old booth, thinking of you

Caught in the cadence of your memory
I'm just the same man I ever used to be
Trying to do what's right in the chaos of the night

When I got my badge on, the night lasts so long
It's so hard to do what they want me to
When what's right is so wrong

Is the way that it's got to be?
Keeping our love beneath a lock and key
I work for the law all night while you work beneath the red light

Is this some kind of inside joke?
Where the good guys are bad and the bad guys are broke
Someone's running for reelection, someone's pushing crack in the classified section

We rendezvous at 1:45, a jaded cop and a prostitute
You face, powdered pink
I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling

And as the streets steam, we're wrapped in bed sheets
The squeak of the bed, the sound of your breath
As I come into a blue dream

I'm wide... awake and things are very strange...
The city is a mountain range
And all at once... I try to run
There's sirens on a school bus...
From my home town...
I'm spinning round and round
And the boss... feeds me shots of Everclear...
I'm putting on my riot gear...
And we march... I use my torch
On houses made of cardboard... smoke rises up
There are demons driving dump trucks
The city's just a chain gang...
One big judicial gangbang
And then I see your face

Gazing out into an empty street
I tell my waitress I'm too hungry to eat
I'm sitting at our old booth, thinking of you

Pay for my coffee when I've had my fill
A dime, a nickel, a dollar bill
And I'm gone, walking on, into the dawn

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from Crux Interpretum (Tapes 1​-​3), released August 13, 2016

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