You Promised to Show Me the Stars... I Promised Not to Leave

from Codename: T.J. Eckleburg by Ryan Blaire

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I stumble through my pockets with cold hands and a smoker's dexterity
I fumble through this life on the rotten foundations of a half-hearted heresy
With words stolen from hands blackened by stray cigarettes
With hopes torn from my notebook thrown in the waste basket
If there's one thing I know you will never regret
It's learning how learning how to forget

It's not that I don't like you I just like myself more
How could I not when your company's such a bore
I'll say some things some true some not
Just to get you to... To get you to piss off

I guess it's true that I'm not what I've been pretending
To be for so long
I'm just another punk ass lazy apathetic kid wasting time underneath the sun

All I want is a world where I've got your back as long as you've got mine
All I want is to feel like I've found freedom, left the shackles behind

I wade through a book of Marx in all its glory and its doom
A thin veil of smoke escapes my lungs and casts doubt on the moon
So can I turn to you and consume your warmth now that I'm cold again
Can I turn away deny you the same now that I'm warm again

We would not turn back now if we wanted to not to say we could
Splayed beneath the skies, stars brighter every night, it was then we understood

All I want is a world where I've got your back as long as you've got mine
All I want is to feel like I've found freedom, left the shackles behind

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from Codename: T.J. Eckleburg, released January 24, 2016

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Ryan Blaire Denver, Colorado

Acoustic Punk songs from a small town in Colorado. Hit me up if you're interested in doing some sort of musicy thing together!

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