Friendly Town Lyrics

Brown leather leash in my hand

Four legs are pulling me

Into a pile of leaves

Grey squirrel up a tree

Black days ahead of us

She's waiting for the bus

She'll turn away my smile

I'm feeling lecherous

Razor burn and gasoline

Howard Stern and nicotine

Tolltaker tell me this

Have I become my father?

I pledge the cutting edge

Unto the tattooed faction

Ten years of frustration

Gave way to satisfaction

I never knew just what it meant to walk the line

Till the line led to a traffic jam where destiny went blind

Leave it behind

Leave your keys in the car

This is a friendly town

You waited for defeat

It never came around

I say luck you say fate

Either way we're found

There's nothing more between us

Just a lifetime and a lie

That a love can linger long enough to tie a knot in time

I'd like to place a call to where you place the blame

Undo your suffering before you got a name

What demons would I find

What there to consecrate

What love denied a dream to harden into hate

I know the fear you're running from

Another nightmare told me

When your father calls

I'll say you're not around to tell the story

Leave your keys in the car

This is a friendly town

You waited for defeat

It never came around

I say luck you say fate

Either way

Now did He throw it through a window

Honey wrapped around a rock

When you found yourself serenity now was it such a shock?

Fear of death by heart attack drives me to the gym

But I won't look for traffic as I back into the lot

These days it's not the things I do defining me

It's what I don't defining what I'm not

So if you think you've got the answer think again

There's a compromise before your eyes that you will see again

But there's a newfound feeling in a phone call from a friend

And you can't find the failure in a five out of a ten

When you find yourself in love

With all the tears that never mend

And you're looking back to see it

You were so much older then

You can't pretend

Leave your keys in the car

This is a friendly town

You waited for defeat

It never came around

I say luck you say fate

Either way we're found

So leave your keys in the car

This is a friendly town