You'll Only End Up Joining Them-Kevin Devine

[ti:You'll Only End Up Joining The] [ar:Kevin Devine] [al:Put Your Ghost To Rest] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You'll Only End Up Joining Them - Kevin Devine [00:08.43]Tonight I'm posed and popping like a peacock [00:13.67] [00:15.60]I'm pressing flesh I'm smiling big [00:19.50]My spinning head sings stop just stop [00:23.25] [00:24.12]Cause what used to calm me down [00:27.75]Just rips my life to ribbons now [00:31.72]So I keep smiling I find my window and quick cut out [00:37.53] [00:41.09]These days my hangman's hunger makes my gut kick [00:46.09] [00:48.09]My sleeping mind could map it blind [00:52.09]A flask a key a bag a fifth [00:56.15]I try to will myself away [01:00.22]While shouting habits plead their case [01:04.28]So when the sun sears through my eyes [01:08.34]My beggar's brain can't compromise [01:12.40]I splash cold water I draw the curtains I stay inside [01:18.28] [01:20.91]And I can't say that it's a sickness more like a stranger I ask in [01:34.81] [01:37.25]And later realize was a strangler [01:44.40] [01:45.21]Slipping nooses in my den [01:51.13] [01:53.42]But I was lonely so I asked him could you tie that one on me [02:01.37]It wasn't his fault I was eager and I was weak [02:06.44] [02:50.33]So as I inch towards resolution [02:57.65] [02:58.52]Yea I'm not sure which life feels right [03:04.59] [03:06.84]A narrow noose or the wading water [03:14.03] [03:14.84]The hanging head sore open eyes [03:21.42] [03:22.98]My brother Michael he went one way [03:27.08]And at the fork I heard him say [03:31.08]Don't you follow don't go making my mistakes [03:36.83] [03:39.40]And I realized what he meant [03:43.27]Don't kill yourself to raise the dead [03:47.33]It never works you'll only end up joining them [03:52.98] [03:55.61]It never works you'll only end up joining them