Freer

You lit me up like a firework I Stuck myself inside of a can Like a man, I thought I was the mortar. We were standing lakeside Bathed in the red of CVS lights I'm sure that someone's got a photo of us on that night Under fireworks, I stuck myself inside of a can What a man, I thought I was a martyr We were learning lip slides Late into those August nights Sweat and Jackie's on our brow A sweetness not yet soured by the orange glow The things it had to know The rent that we now owe And an insatiable need to be Wherever, whenever You had me up on the wirework  I stuffed myself up with I can's and the grandstand all chanted higher Yeah, it all went slipping' from my grasp Our matching caskets smashed Star 51 'unfastened from the ragged flag Under fireworks, I stuck myself inside of a can Like a man, I thought I was a martyr Red letter days at stateside homes I'll say it even if you won't- When we're out having drinks We're playing hide-and-go-seek with ourselves. 
I'm Just trying to be
Whatever it means
 To be Freer.
 Under an orange glow Sweet autumn only knows Chicago
 Like rents un-payable
 And your fist through the wall
 And the insatiable need to be. Under the heavy glow Of things it had to know The rent that we now owe And an insatiable need to be Wherever, whenever.

 An insatiable need to be.