Living Up To Let You Down

Cut me loose A nine hour excuse A sunset visit to the reddest of states It's new blues for the highway to choose I-65 for when the hour is late It's over or it's under It's on the east side and it's the setting for getting better Apply the brakes and clip a common mistake It's not a problem just to sit here and wait But don't you know what they're about? Living up to let you down So quick to strike up a tune On every evening where I carry us home So quick to strike up a tune On every evening where I carry us Bonfires Who drives the desire Between the suburbs and what's left of this place? Tattoos, new boots and a noose Now just reminders of the city you hate It's over, or it's under? It's a disaster, and we keep betting it's getting better It's well spun for those who turn twenty-one But getting older doesn't brighten the bait So don't you know what they're about? Living up to let you down So quick to strike up a tune On every evening where I carry us home We just sing along But the feeling's gone I've got a couple dozen cities I could share with you A couple stories we could tuck beneath our tennis shoes A couple secrets we could hide between each other's hands A couple moments we could squeeze between some other plans We've got a couple different futures we could call our own A shared apartment or just talking on the telephone You'll move a block away And we'll go on with both our lives in cold conditions With a past of alternating dives Stiff drinks abandoned before they sink Another neighborhood to carefully drown Farewell from the fever to tell We need to move this to a new side of town So quick to strike up a tune On every evening where I carry us home And I'll sing along But the feelings gone (So quick to strike up a tune) (On every evening where I carry us home) (So quick to strike up a tune) (On every evening where I carry us)