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Album: First Two Pages Of Frankenstein (2023)
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  • How you tapped on a box of blue American Spirits
    At Anyway Cafe a little under a month
    Before the ashes and management capital files filled the streets

    How we wove through the cones walking home
    To the place on Atlantic you shared with your hilarious sister
    Kicking off your black flats, demolished and laughing

    I keep what I can of you
    Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
    You in my New Order t-shirt
    Holding a cat and a glass of beer

    When you rescued me from the customs cops in Hawaii
    When I shut down the place with my Japanese novelty bomb
    And your dad came along

    How you had me lay down for a temperature check
    With the cool of your hand on the back of my neck
    When I said "I think I'm finally going crazy for real"

    I keep what I can of you
    Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
    You in my New Order t-shirt
    Holding a cat and a glass of beer
    I flicker through
    I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
    You in a Kentucky aquarium
    Talking to a shark in a corner

    You in the bath on the phone
    Telling somebody that maybe they're better off leaving
    Than staying in it alone
    You in the bath on the phone
    Telling somebody that maybe they're better off leaving
    Than staying in it alone

    When you cried at the beach and recovered in seconds
    And said everything's fine but I knew that it wasn't
    Then you stayed out of reach of me for almost a year

    How you looked like a poster of a 70's movie
    Standing outside at the base of your magazine skyscraper
    Waiting for me to go drinking downtown

    I keep what I can of you
    Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
    You in my New Order t-shirt
    Holding a cat and a glass of beer
    I flicker through
    I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
    You in a Kentucky aquarium
    Talking to a shark in a corner

    I keep what I can of you
    Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
    You in my New Order t-shirt
    Holding a cat and a glass of beer
    I flicker through
    I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
    You in a Kentucky aquarium
    Talking to a shark in a corner Writer/s: Aaron Brooking Dessner, Matthew Donald Berninger
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, UBEM (União Brasileira de Editoras de Música)
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Jojo C from Minneapolis, MinnesotaI first heard this song shortly after my mom passed. It went straight through me. It reminds me of trying to recall faded memories that didn't seem worth remembering at the time, but when you remember it makes you happy.
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