A Night Beyond Repair Lyrics

Past southern shrines

Made up minds

Liquor stores and copper mines

She saw the Angel Oak one day

Drove out west but unimpressed

Came back home to decompress

Said we're much better than all of this

Busy roads, ethylene

Little children quarantined

There's a view from

Widow Rock to sea

The lake is down and losing ground

People watching with no sound

Say we're much better

Than all of this

As light well knows

What matters is it shows

On the faces of the workers

As they come and go

Bringing home a decent pay

To picnic on a Saturday

And maybe fly one day to Mexico

Life gets away

Like a mink slips into Shanty Bay

Takes a breath and gone

You wait too long to talk

Guilty or just scared to balk

As truth shines in

Like the morning sun

Now it's one more Friday night

And soon she can't talk

And soon he can't walk

And someone trips the fire door

How we gettin' home tonight guys

How we gettin' home

The landscape changed

It's rearranged

Let's steal a boat and row

Moon shines on the bay

They're coming for us anyway

From Government Dock

We'll sprint the blocks

To home and light of day

You heal, you cry

You burn away inside

No need to say how hard you tried

Just carry on

Morning calls, evening falls

Streets, paths and dim-lit halls

Just go until you find your way

And work until you're done

How we gettin' home tonight

How we gettin' there

Friends are out and all about

And it's like some county fair

How we gettin' home tonight

And do we really care

Toss your keys to the summer breeze

The moon will pull us there

We live for this impromptu bliss

A night beyond repair

As candles on the water

Glow like evening prayer