Down Town Again-Slobberbone

[ti:Down Town Again] [ar:Slobberbone] [al:Slippage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down Town Again - Slobberbone [00:25.60]The kids are loud the house it stinks [00:28.14]He cracks a beer and pours another drink [00:31.96] [00:32.63]Says he needs some time to think [00:34.92] [00:36.12]Hindsight askewed today's the day [00:38.85]She'll be home soon the kids'll be okay [00:42.71] [00:43.41]He finds the keys and drives away [00:45.67] [00:57.69]The barroom reeks a golden stench [01:00.62]Assume your place upon the weary bench [01:04.94]You take the hit don't even flinch [01:08.38]And the ghosts of friends who've moved along [01:11.22]Can still be felt but they don't sing along [01:14.70] [01:15.79]To your stubborn stupid song [01:18.34] [01:20.04]You've been pretending loss could be your gain [01:23.03] [01:25.62]But in the end you're just as lame [01:28.52]Now where have you been [01:30.66]You've been in the down town again [01:32.34] [01:33.31]And it's the same old thing: [01:34.95]The flailing fall the flake and wallow forsaking friends [01:39.48]And where have you gone [01:41.70]Cause you been gone so damn long [01:44.47]Okay what's wrong [01:46.02]Are you the only one to have ever once felt strong [01:48.54]And then lost where you belong [01:50.71] [01:52.65]Some buffer for the years ahead [01:56.03] [01:57.50]Means nothing if you're living dead [02:00.86]Now where have you gone [02:03.09] [02:40.75]Your thoughts are dulled her words are sharp [02:43.04]Your memory's stained [02:44.80]You make the disconnect between the heart and brain [02:51.61]You figured loss could be your gain [02:54.22]You read the contract and you signed your name [02:58.53]Said goodbye and walked away [03:01.70] [03:02.68]You figured loss could be your gain [03:05.81] [03:08.10]In some fickle lease that's paid in shame [03:11.98] [03:13.60]But in the end you're just as lame [03:17.80]In sad attempts to pluck some gem [03:20.59]From down below and deep within [03:23.35]With hazy eyes and sallow skin you wait to find just [03:28.13]Now where have you been You've been in the down town again [03:32.92]And it's the same old thing: [03:34.76]The flailing fall the flake and wallow forsaking friends [03:38.63] [03:39.33]And where have you gone [03:41.12]Cause you been gone so damn long [03:43.86]Okay what's wrong [03:45.29]Are you the only one to have [03:46.68]Ever once felt strong and then lost where you belong [03:48.81] [03:50.11]And what have you seen [03:51.95]Was it everything that you had ever dreamed [03:54.75]Is there beauty to be dredged and skimmed in filthy nets [03:58.65]And lifted from these beery depths [04:01.34]To be dragged and strewn upon the shore [04:04.12]Or simply scraped up off the floor [04:06.67]Attested to through glass-bottom eyes soft and sad and sore [04:11.75]Where have you been