sweep me off my feet
what did you find in the back seat, officer?
i can explain myself
what did you find in the back seat?
i offered her a slow go around on your lopsided waterwheel
spinnin' out forever
caught ya - spit it out
and don't let me ever find you
falling back on that bad news
we all heard about your...
everybody knows about your...
(but you're in good company)
cos i was high at the top of the hill
when that call came at me in flame
my legs were shaking but that voice was so still
and now its got me stretched out over all of my names
all of those dusty dusty
paragraph hyphenated, downstream overrated
concubine alibis - upstaged and confiscated
heat blastin' gutter spouts
death dodgin' desert trout
got my shit all scattered about
because i'm secretly an...
bet you never took me for an...
don't you wish you'd never seen my...
can't forget the place i found that...
raise it up and wave it like an...
bear it with you back into the...
once more, dear friends now with me...
lay it down again and again again again
and can you hear me when i...
credits
from the colors and the kill,
track released March 1, 2011
music by ben lance, lyrics by seth woods
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