Blue Streak, 1938 Lyrics

This one's gone on for far too long

How can I withdraw, escape from scene

Again

We were great at 22

And I had doubt

Lying next to you, the quiet one

In your room

That we'd make it

Last, a semester or 2

Longing for the parallels we drew

To the "new year's project"

To "mass pike", and sunny day

To the sunset of midwestern pa

Just like we were kissing in the rain

Making mix cds with your name

Finding a place that was open this late

Our hands met 'neath a small library tree

As you struggle with

How to best

Reinvent

Goddamn the sentiment

And the shelf I placed it on

Memorize lines to a dead-end song

Goddamn this indecision

Now he's strong, he's holding out

The frame's right, but the picture's all wrong

All I wanted was you

But I could not fold

Call the bluff, and I'll pine for your ghost

I know all I wanted was you

But I could not fold

Like giving in to

Your stronger old self

You're a ghost

But all I wanted was you

And I could not fold

Cut from a roseate

And magazines

And a lost cause you've not sung away

Aimless

And dreamt of before

Like a dead-end song