“New Lonely” Lyrics
Lonely (On the Weekend)
It’s getting me down waiting up for you
Cause I could’ve just as easily left by now
What makes me return is
What I need you to do
But something you gave me just made me feel almighty sweet release
You were the only rudder that I had
That embarrassing waste of hours we would spend
And you’re always where you said you’d be my friend
When I was lonely on the weekend
It’s something to see how beauty can scare you
That never ending neon mess of lights
Silent and dreamless holding on like I do
When what I prepared doesn’t get me anywhere that I like here to be
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Sleeping you off suddenly strangers
Running out after using you each time
Ignoring the pace of the fear I’d be through
Of what I partake doesn’t make this any crime in my eyes in the least
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No Time
I had no time to think at the time or so I thought
I wasted it all worrying that the engines off
With spark and gasoline an inflammatory test
Just another heartache’s fire burning up against the west
Cause you and I forget sometimes the pain
Of starting up again
Our time apart was hell it was cold and we got mean
The last time that I saw you I recall we caused a scene
But now it’s getting late and we’re both down a few
And I’ll take half the blame now if you take me home with you
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An incremental end to not so good old days
When we both held high the torch as if it were still ablaze
Half-sentimental bliss restarting old routines
Our slow adept unraveling is something to be seen
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Just another round to win
And an answer rolling out to wind
Only One Down
You’ve got it all worked out to a tee
Working professionally by twenty-three
You wanted out it was plain to me
But I wish you’d change your mind
You couldn’t wait to move on
I could see that
You had no plans for the life that we made
It’s been a wild blur that we obscured
Looking for nothing to find
You can look out the window and see
You’re not the only one down
But it’s hard to make all the same mistakes
When you know what’s on the line
Now tell me which way you prefer the news
Living without you without you to lose
I’m holding up like a dream confused
Lonesome low and out of time
Baltimore
On the day we moved out west daddy hadn’t any work
He scraped a living putting seeds in the dirt
The he died in eighty-five we spent the afternoon at church
Praying about his life for whatever it was worth
All he wanted was to get back home
Lay his head down on a pillow
The wish he made he made it long ago
To be buried back in Baltimore
Well little Marianne she just couldn’t understand
The forces that took pa or the trouble at hand
Then she took a look outside and saw the big clouds rolling in
The road would be long and our chances were thin
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Defenseless on the fence our mama moaned for days
Because we had to lay him down there in the Beulah clay
Although it weren’t his home that hole was just a place
Our troubles just begun his gone where he lay
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