The Angel of 8th Ave.

Album: Total Serene (2021)
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  • So we got straight to the heart
    And I was a coward and worse to my shame
    I fell hard upon the weightless weeks
    And wasted every day
    'Til you emerged in the park
    Like some patron of Washington Square
    For the first time in a long time
    Inside everything stood clear

    So went out to find me a job
    But I didn't think I would hold this one down
    It gives the same old sinking feeling
    Of fucking hammers in my bowels
    But you are good to me still
    And when my old man was near to the end
    You loved his broken body
    In the same way that I did

    I wanna lay me down and be lover of the year
    In this strange new town, this strange hemisphere

    God, it was state of the art
    You called each of my sorrows by name
    And a tide of tender mercies shook my body from the grave
    And in the festival years
    Of our makeshift parade
    In perpetual fall
    And immeasurable rain

    I wanna see this one out
    And I wanna join the impossible swing
    And fall hard beside you
    Screaming at the bowels of everything
    And in the Islington morn
    You're the angel of 8th
    And what's more, the goddamn greatest thing
    That Laney ever made

    I wanna lay me down and be lover of the year
    And in this strange new town, this strange hemisphere
    You persuade me now to look closer in the mirror
    And I wanna lay me down for years and years and years and years

    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    There is heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now

    There is heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    Ah, there's heaven in you now
    There is heaven in you now
    Now, now Writer/s: David Immanuel Menachem Sasagi Leaupepe, Donnie Borzestowski, Jung Kim, Max Dunn, Tom Hobden
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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