Final Boy Lyrics

When October throws light like a story

Is this the story it guesses in me?

A dream every night convincing enough

To wreck my sleep since twenty-three?

The way you spend fall in colonial towns

Or harbor cities

Wasting away in the hub of the universe

From little slights and low self-pity

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

Friday night I'm with the cockroaches

Doing your laundry in Iowa City

Saturday night I think of the sex some have

Objectivist poems and tiny infinities

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

And the horn on the town green blows

And the boys there scatter like crows

And the sudden blizzard grows

And I've walked such towns unknown

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

I look back at the house I've lived in

And it's dark and small and cold

I look back at the houses I've lived in

Every place I should've been told

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here

Final boy, oh yeah

Final boy, oh

Final boy, get out of here now