Curve of the Earth Lyrics

The smell of camel cigarettes

In the year of your used car

I was in the back

Windows cracked

Sitting on the floor

Fifteen years and fiercely young

Clinging to the door

Singing along to smoke and slur

In the back of your used car

I come to you from the curve of the earth

With new currency of skin

Shed my beliefs, shed all my dreams

And I built them up again

Belief is bubblegum

On the bottom of my shoe

God is great, god is good

Until he happens to you

I was just a boy

Just beginning to begin

Until the rug I loved was ripped away

And I was standing on my hands

I come to you from the curve of the earth

With new currency of skin

Shed my beliefs, shed all my dreams

And I built them up again

I come to you from the curve of the earth

With a motion for reprieve

I will say A, I won't say B

That's who I am

I sleep inside a sour bed

Built for brooding boys stuck inside their heads

I steep in a tea brewed just for me

I'm about to break without the slightest chance to bend

I want a big red balloon, an infinite sky

And a letter to send saying

I come to you from the curve of the earth

With new currency of skin

Shed my beliefs, shed all my dreams

And I built them up again

I come to you from the curve of the earth

With a motion for reprieve

I will say A, I won't say B

That's who I am, that's how it is

That's how it goes and that's how it ends