Eustace Lyrics

Did I ever tell you about the football player?

Her name was Eustace

Told me"Chelsea I think your useless"

Kissed her shoulder

She brooded and smoldered

I proved my point

Now that I'm older

Finally sent the money I owed her

She never wrote back

Instead heard from her father

Went beneath the waves to pull her child from a riptide

She never reemerged

And her son is paralyzed

Since I moved away

She's a household name

Smiles missed and misremembered

Like winding, curving roads carved into sprawl

Sleepy, dreary neighborhoods, drowsiest at dawn

The slightest shard, buried somewhere

Plymmouth in the hedges, tires entrenched in the dirt

Glinting and glaring a silver strand trapped beneath the earth

Skee balls, claw machines, feeding coins

Spewing tickets, like a drunk on the docks paranoid

Divorced from any kind of reason or choice

Hesitant but happy to be here

Further estranged than I have ever been

Further still until a great yawn exhausts and flees the skin

Margaret they flooded our basement

With cement, support beams, rebar and wet dreams

Backstreets, names and faces

That I long to describe with some semblance of clarity

Guess you moved

Like I knew you would

Did you ever write me letters

Of fondness and gentle words

Guess you moved

Like I knew you would

Margaret

Did you finish"Let's be in Hollywood!"?

Guess you moved

Like I knew you would

If it's any comfort Margaret

I never did make it to Hollywood