Hairshirt Fracture Lyrics by Jim Caroll

Hairshirt Fracture Lyrics

    It's a garbage truck hour, i'm sleeping in the shower
    I'm feeling like i'm waiting on a train
    By the sounds from my bed i think somebody's bled
    All over something someone's keeping clean

    I don't need anything, just make it bright
    Then turn it low
    You don't need more than me
    You could live right there beneath the stairs
    I've done it, i've said all i can, i've reached the end
    Now you must learn to bend
    Bend to the floor, taste the core

    You're not going nowhere
    Leave the money right there
    I feel the arrow sticking in my ear
    We owe so much we pawned
    Now watch the power come undone
    I'm standing on my head to watch the day just drift away
    This city always makes the same mistakes, asleep or awake

    I'm sick of waking up inside white balloons
    Inside of blue balloons

    New york air is sweet tonight
    There's no stars but that's all right
    I'm breathing

    I feel you through your fear
    Pull the arrow from my ear
    Tonight we'll take a different way home
    They say the fire burns but won't consume
    But it does consume

    You're slick, you shoplift
    What's left of my brain
    You haven't changed
    This city always makes the same mistakes,
    It's just like me
    It always breaks in two
    I'm sick of me for being sick of you
    We'll take a gypsy cab to heaven or hell
    Time will tell

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