You'll Only End Up Joining Them-Kevin Devine

[ti:You'll Only End Up Joining The] [ar:Kevin Devine] [al:Kevin Devine Live At Maxwell's] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You'll Only End Up Joining Them - Kevin Devine [00:23.13]Tonight I'm posed and popping like a peacock [00:28.56] [00:30.99]I'm pressing flesh I'm smiling big [00:34.86]My spinning head sings stop just stop [00:39.04] [00:49.15]Cause what used to calm me down [00:52.08] [00:52.65]Just rips my life to ribbons now [00:56.95]So I keep smiling I find my window and quick cut out [01:03.19] [01:07.06]These days my hangman's hunger makes my gut kick [01:12.68] [01:14.80]My sleeping mind could map it blind [01:18.97]A flask a key a bag a fifth [01:23.27]I try to will myself away [01:27.64]While shouting habits plead their case [01:32.01]So when the sun sears through my eyes [01:36.44]My beggar's brain can't compromise [01:40.87]I splash cold water I draw the curtains I stay inside [01:47.23] [01:50.04]And I can't say that it's a sickness more like a stranger I ask in [02:04.69] [02:07.38]And later realize was a strangler [02:14.74] [02:15.86]Slipping nooses in my den [02:22.32] [02:24.63]But I was lonely so I asked him would you tie that one on me [02:33.26]It wasn't his fault I was eager and I was weak [02:39.25] [02:41.81]So as I inch towards resolution [02:49.86] [02:50.79]Yea I'm not sure which life feels right [02:56.91] [02:59.16]A narrow noose or the wading water [03:06.42] [03:07.79]The hanging head sore open eyes [03:14.34] [03:16.40]My brother Michael he went one way [03:20.96]And at the fork I heard him say [03:25.08]Don't you follow don't go making my mistakes [03:31.13] [03:33.69]And I realized what he meant [03:37.81]Don't kill yourself to raise the dead [03:42.18]It never works you'll only end up joining them [03:48.23] [03:50.72]It never works you'll only end up joining them