Watertower Lyrics

It was mid-July

Midnight off exit 105

Backpack full of spray cans

Colors I could find

Bugs were biting and humming songs

Dropped my flashlight but carried on

I shake as I climb

The water tower in the sky

That cranes above the pines

And dying flowers

I slip and I fall

Your name still written on the wall

In letters three foot tall

The water tower

Just like the rest

You never moved away from here

Married young

And when the weather's clear

You squint and see it from your yard

We left this town a scar

I shake as I climb

The water tower in the sky

That cranes above the pines

And dying flowers

I slip and I fall

Your name

Still written on the wall

The water tower

Too expensive to demolish

The tower yet remains

A monument of loss

Sneering at the highway

Now protected by a gate

Sun bleaches paint and I fade