I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
- The time has come for colds and overcoats.
- We're quiet on the ride,
- we're all just waiting to get home.
- Another week away, my greatest fear.
- I need the smell of summer,
- I need its noises in my ears.
- If looks could really kill,
- then my profession would be staring.
- Please know we do this cause we care
- and not for the thrill.
- Collect calls to home
- to tell them that I realize
- that everyone who lives will someday die
- and die alone.
- And we won't let you in.
- Though we're down and out.
- No we won't let you in.
- You win, you win, you win.
- I wrote more postcards than hooks.
- I read more maps than books.
- Feel like every chance to leave
- is another chance I should have took.
- Every minute is a mile.
- I've never felt so hollow.
- I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews
- and empty aisles.
- My secrets for a buck.
- Watch me as I cut myself wide open
- on this stage. Yes, I am paid
- to spill my guts. I won't see home till spring.
- Oh, I would kill for the Atlantic,
- but I am paid to make girls panic
- while I sing.
- And we won't let you in.
- Though we're down and out.
- No we won't let you in.
- And we won't let you in.
- We don't want what isn't ours.
- We won't let you in.
- You win, you win, you win.
- And the coastline is quiet.
- While we're quietly losing control.
- And we're silent but sure
- we inventened the cure
- that will wash out my memories of her.
- "The harpoon is loaded. The cage is lowered.
- The water is red."
- Like you, like you.
- And we won't let you in.
- Though we're down and out.
- No we won't let you in.
- And we won't let you in.
- We don't want what isn't ours.
- We won't let you in.
- You win, you win, you win.
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