We'll smoke like a couple in the 1960's Lit up like a pair of Woodstock hippies Lookin' down on a town where it don't seem wrong To be a bonfire blaze where it don't belong Meet me on the fire escape Meet me on the fire escape Don't let me wait I wanna start up this flame Meet me on the fire escape Meet me on the fire escape When the building's burning Baby, we're to blame Mmm Downtown bar band's bouncing off the brick walls Half pint lovers rollin' out with their last calls The street lights down on Lafayette Ain't seen nothin' like you and me yet Oh' meet me on the fire escape Meet me on the fire escape Don't let me wait I wanna start up this flame Meet me on the fire escape Meet me on the fire escape When the building's burning Baby' we're to blame Baby' we're to blame Mmm (Ah, ah) (Ah, ah) We'll smoke like a couple in the 1960's Up all night like New York City Oh' meet me on the fire escape Meet me on the fire escape Don't let me wait I wanna start up this flame Meet me on the fire escape Meet me on the fire escape When the building's burning Baby, we're to blame Mmm (Ah, ah) Mmm' mmm (Ah, ah)

Meet me out by the fire escape It's been 40 nights and 40 days I've become uncertain in a cosmic way Chewed my fingers to the bone today Oh, won't you come around, meet me by the fire escape? Untie this tied tongue tie What is it that I wanna say? What is it that I really wanna say? What are the words I've been choking on, hoping someone will articulate? Oh, no, that's some murky water Alright, we're in the trenches now I don't know when the party's over All I know is I'm getting out somehow Oh, what a fever dream Meet me out by the fire escape Join the procession down the alleyway Our freedom's a joke, and we've got debts to pay How many waves until the levee breaks? Oh, won't you come around, meet me by the fire escape? Untie these tied tongue ties What is it that we wanna say? What is it that we really wanna say? What are the truths we've been choking on, hoping someone will articulate? Oh, no, that's some murky water Alright, we're in the trenches now I don't know how the story ends But the pages just turn over and then turn over again Redemption's always out of sight and just around the bend And the outcome doesn't match with what it is that I intend Like a stack of books that grows and gathers dust beside the bed Or the disconnect between what people do and what they've said And I wanna read the news, maybe without losing my head Oh, what a fever dream Meet me out by the fire escape It's been 40 nights and 40 days I've become uncertain in a cosmic way Chewed my fingers to the bone today

I miss the southern sky I miss those bedroom eyes I miss that liars tongue I miss the warm goodbye (And I love you And I love you) I miss my lazy heart I miss my second chance I miss my unborn child I miss that warm goodbye (And I love you And I love you) It's not like I'm running away It's not like I'm running away Waking up to find yourself A beacon of the whole, oh, oh-oh Waking up to find yourself A river overflowed, oh, oh-oh .#INSTRUMENTAL Waking up to find yourself Two feet from where you start, oh, oh-oh (And I love you And I love you And I love you)

Everybody wants to be someone else Everybody needs to be somewhere else To fit right in To be ordinary but not the same To fit right in To be ordinary and never change Everybody started so helpless Everybody couldn't even couldn't even take what they needed Whether they know it Whether they don't mind not knowing at all Whether they know it (and forgot it) Or whether they don't mind not knowing at all Everybody wants to be someone else Everybody needs to be somewhere else It's the way you look The way you talk about things, the way you are The way you look The way you talk about things, the way you are Got a baby in your belly, baby kill it with fire In our kingdom of convenience where we sing in the choir This is a conference of our failures, a union of regret Where we bow beneath the worry for what hasn't happened yet And all of this will come crashing down To fit right in To be ordinary but not the same To fit right in To be ordinary and never change

Drugs you take to reveal it All your wishes come true Drugs you take to believe it All your wishes come true Still am full of hate Still am full of pride Still am full of hate Still am full of pride Is it all that you need? When it's all that you got? Is it all that you need? Cause it's all that i want When it's all that you need Cause it's all that you got When it's all that you want And it's all that i'm not! Still as rain Falling down Still as rain Falling down Still as rain Falling down Still as rain Falling down Drug you Drug you Drug you Drug you Drug you Drug you Drug you

Tell me a lie, I'll be the first to fall. Give me an offer Unofferable. Imagine the war, In those tiny hands, That held onto a penance, I didn't deserve. Don't it feel like a knife, In the back of your head? And it reeks like an afterthought, rotten, unsaid. Maybe something got lost or forgotten instead. And I'm bound by a drunk, With a few memories, Of how you burn through your lovers, Like an ugly disease. Give me an offer unofferable. That held onto a penance I didn't deserve. And it reeks like an afterthought, rotten, instead, Maybe something got lost or forgotten unsaid.

You gotta believe me, i'm doing my best I apologize for all the flack i caught for dropping out Yeh you kicked up a storm, but the winds have died down I got a lot of bottles on account of this around I'm sorry i'm not him The poet's right hand The artistic little suffering son-of-a-working-man You work yourself in, but it spits you right out Why is it so hard? I should've run you out of town! If it looks like it is, then it probably ain't The more than you talk the more my interest goes away You work yourself in, but it spits you right out Why is it so hard? I should've run you out of town! I should've run you out of town!