Blueprint + Requiem (Live Pop Montreal Session) Lyrics

Jersey City boy

On the rooftop cool in the city

Hot headed in the night

Got a burning for a good way forward

Got a fire in his eye

Jesuit school and daddy is a doctor

Nanny in the attic and Johnny's got cancer

Mama's got five kids

You've got asthma

Take it to the shore

Just a Benny on the beach with a hard cut style

Another restless kid on the Avon mile

Hail Marys and Rock and Roll

Springsteen is gonna save your soul

You've got the spark that'll start this fire

Everywhere I go - there you are

I can feel it in my blood - there you are

What a restless soul - what a heart on fire

I wanna take it there - I wanna find you here

Ten years a requiem

Can I let it go now?

And all the things lost

Can I let them go now?

Can I let them go now?

Can I let them go?

I held your suffering

I didn't want it

I got a tough skin

I didn't want it

I didn't want it

I didn't want it

The salt is thickest at the bottom of the sea

I know it - see my tongue I have licked it

I followed you down to the bottom of the sea

I grew gills, my blood thickened

I gotta tough skin

I gotta tough skin

Ten years a reckoning

Are we in the clear now?

And every word spent

Are we in the clear now?

Are we in the clear now?

Are we in the clear?

I gotta tough skin

I gotta tough skin

From the moment that I heard

Like a blueprint in my blood

It was comin' like a Biblical flood

I know it's not the way we wanted it to be

But still the waters rose in that imminent sea

I gotta tough skin

I gotta tough skin