Ciggarette Skylines (Live) Lyrics

Take me to the creek, to the river's artery

Which flows and bleeds, like the red dirt streets that scar the scenery

Take me by my hand to a place where the waters clean

And the lights have lost their war with stars, and the dirt still seems to breathe

Because I was raised among tin cans

Littered neatly in disguise

I walk along used cigarette skylines

Wiping kerosene tears from my eyes

But its all I've ever known

I'm a suburbs boy, from a place I long to leave

But I can't because I'm scared of everything that's not repetitive or dizzying

Where the dogs walk on two legs because the leash hauls up their necks

And if they move it's like an old town noose where the prisoners met the dead

My neighbor trims her hedge in a perfect concrete square

And we'll show the world the lengths we'll go just to prove that we were here

Because I was raised among tin cans

Littered neatly in disguise

Walk along used cigarette skylines

Wiping kerosene tears from my eyes

But its all I've ever known

And I still throw my smokes out the window

When the ashtrays not convenient

Amazing just how far i can go

Being sad, when I'm the reason just like them

I'm just a piece of chewing gum

Rolling past these seven-story cigarettes

Because I was raised with my tin cans

I littered neatly in disguise

Walk along my cigarette skylines

Dumping kerosene in my eyes

But its all I've ever known