One For The Catholic Girls-Simon Joyner

[ti:One For The Catholic Girls] [ar:Simon Joyner] [al:Beautiful Losers: Singles And Compilation Tracks 1994-1999] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]One For The Catholic Girls - Simon Joyner [00:13.46]I was drunk I didn't let on [00:16.74] [00:19.06]As I stood before your door at dawn [00:22.65] [00:24.32]I guess I might have awaken the dogs [00:28.27] [00:29.56]Because the shadows started coughing them out [00:33.60] [00:39.43]So I put my hands into my hair [00:44.08] [00:45.51]And I pulled and let it hurt [00:49.17] [00:50.80]There was a light going out somewhere [00:54.55] [00:56.26]I thought it hear through the wood [01:00.58] [01:06.27]That held the house together [01:10.48] [01:12.22]That kept me out here in the cold [01:15.99] [01:17.51]I knew the sun was going to change the weather [01:21.70] [01:22.96]But I was looking she never would show [01:27.50]I was jamming my hands in my pockets [01:32.09] [01:32.87]And I was thinking about throwing a stone [01:36.90] [01:38.11]But if I had the courage I knew that I lost it [01:43.17]I was too scared to walk myself home [01:47.77] [01:59.63]So I lit out on a concrete rail [02:03.80] [02:05.57]And I made my way through the dead park [02:09.43] [02:10.75]I could still here the cicadas wailing [02:14.83] [02:16.09]As the morning fog rolled off the dark [02:20.37] [02:26.13]I had the whole night in my lungs [02:30.47] [02:31.92]I was breathing so hard and so fast [02:36.08] [02:37.16]I scored one for the catholic girls [02:41.13] [02:42.61]And I tried to stuff it all in a box [02:46.86] [02:52.63]You know the kind that comes with a key [02:57.17] [02:58.32]You can throw in the lake or bury somewhere [03:02.19] [03:03.84]I though about the kid you knew before me [03:07.41] [03:09.20]And how he held onto that lock of your hair [03:13.47] [03:19.24]He kept it tied up in a sad rubber band [03:23.07] [03:25.04]In his dresser drawer on the right side [03:29.07] [03:29.94]Now he walks around with strands of you all over him [03:34.25] [03:35.94]As if you were still spending the night [03:40.18]I was jamming my hands in my pockets [03:45.37]I swear I was zero at the bones [03:49.99] [03:50.88]If I felt my courage making a come back [03:55.12] [03:56.44]I was drunk [03:58.13]I didn't let on [04:00.72] [04:12.37]Cause I was doing like my pa had always done [04:16.58] [04:17.90]I was trying to rise back from the dead [04:21.74] [04:22.82]Saying all those ghost prayers before the storm [04:27.49] [04:28.33]Hoping God won't hit me over the head [04:32.70] [04:38.46]I guess I was out for a revelation [04:43.25] [04:43.86]I was kicking out agaist the darkness [04:48.86]I had dew all over my body [04:53.45] [04:54.86]From sleeping in a ball under a park bench [04:59.47]I was so sure I would never make it [05:03.79] [05:04.37]I remember like it happened only yesterday [05:09.51]I don't know why I'm still holding onto it [05:15.18]Don't hearts break nearly every other day [05:19.50] [05:41.79]When you try to make the sweetness last [05:46.14] [05:47.78]Cause everything happens so fast [05:51.68] [05:52.50]And your waiting with half dry eyes [05:56.97] [05:57.77]For something to fall or something to rise