You're Trailing Yourself-Kevin Devine

[ti:You're Trailing Yourself] [ar:Kevin Devine] [al:Kevin Devine Live At Maxwell's] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You're Trailing Yourself - Kevin Devine [01:33.40]The sputter and blink a streetlamp [01:37.52]Makes you taller then shrinks you then splits you in half [01:42.33]So you're trailing yourself [01:44.39] [01:45.70]On the walk to the pay phone [01:48.82] [01:51.63]Your pocket's weighted down with quarters [01:54.56]In the hope that no ones home [01:57.93] [01:59.99]You spray paint cinnamon on vines [02:03.29] [02:04.85]And key the cars you pass by [02:07.23] [02:08.29]Your ears burn and your voice don't sound right [02:12.28] [02:20.58]So you spend the next week playing weekend [02:25.20]Rolling three men alone in the dark in your kitchen [02:30.29]Your apartment can't talk so it's safe for your secrets [02:36.66] [02:39.65]All the stories you've invested with a masochist menacing meaning [02:46.01] [02:47.95]Those tired tricks that you play [02:51.07] [02:52.82]To graft a life to your name [02:55.25] [02:56.06]And you know It's not yours but for now it's okay [03:00.24] [03:41.76]You wake and cut your initials in cheap glass [03:46.46]To mark a space for yourself when you're time here is passed [03:51.64]And you're drifted and done trading danger for distance [03:58.19] [04:00.64]And all those rocks that rope your neck [04:03.19]Are finally nameless and weightless and faceless [04:07.43] [04:09.12]And you'll strip the sting from those stains [04:12.86] [04:13.86]That bleed the life from your face [04:16.80]And your cheeks will burn red on that pure perfect day