Late August Blues Lyrics

Crumbling asphalt, shattered glass

This runway's come to pass, in the broken pieces

I still feel the warmth but it won't last

Take a taste of sweetness, feel the kiss of sunshine on your skin

Then your stomach lurches, moonlight cascades out from deep within

I know the words they spoke and I know times are changing

That's why I'll always ask of you

To keep the odds as far out of my view

As I can take

Good lord, I hope I'm not mistaken

For a fool on borrowed time, too afraid to lose a dime

I guess today's the day I reckon

With the ugly bits of me I've left behind for now

Denial always seems to follow doubt, or in my case

It seems I'm always in a race with the slowest horse

And I can only see flaws in this course, but really I've been speeding past

This summer's come and gone too fast for me to find

The pieces I've forgotten left behind

I've lost the good and lost the bad

And though it takes a toll on me to make mistakes

But the moon begets the sun before it wakes