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A Life Full of Farewells

by The Apartments

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1.
Sat outside the darkened house Reading one of your old letters I'd carried it from town to town I sometimes hoped for you Things got better It says" We'e got a place by the river now The rooms are full of light, it's still our town If there's such a thing as a second chance... I want it now." That's what it says Things you keep Some things you were never meant to lose The things you keep Some things the world cannot refuse The things you keep You thought there was a way out So you took it on your hands and knees Oh what if your best days are gone How do you plead? And if day to day is a hurting thing You're even tired of all beauty now And you said goodbye to your baby face You said it to just about everything Things you keep Some things you were never meant to lose The things you keep Some things the world cannot refuse The things you keep Everybody was skinny then Nobody said you wouldn't win You said goodbye to your baby face And just about everything Things you keep Some things you were never meant to lose The things you keep Some things the world cannot refuse The things you keep Everybody was skinny then Everybody was skinny then And they said you wouldn't hear You said goodbye to your baby face And just about everything How do you plead? How do you plead? How do you plead? How do you plead? How do you plead?
2.
The failure of love is like a brick wall You prayed for me to hit it Said you'd like to see me fall That's like a lesson you'd give to a kitten So quiet now and lonely So quiet now You thought you'd be the girl Rimbaud Your voice was full of longing The clubs you played died years ago Now you only sing for children No one can turn the old clocks back They closed us down, they killed our act We' re not the same Life full of farewells ... Failure came and took your hand You always meant to miss it But someone likes to see you fall It' s like a lesson you give to a kitten You' re so tired now You' re so tired now So tired No one can turn the old clocks back They closed us down, they killed our act We' re not the same I'm not the same They closed us down, they killed our act
3.
One time you couldn't dream, couldn't see past this life Something like defeat floated in the evening light If you land in darkness, no one will keep up... You kept your place, I moved through a world of strangers Where's your tenderness? Everything gets rearranged If it's all revealed as treachery and deals Where's your grace? You became my big excuse The poison that I drink when I sink my teeth in you You became my big excuse People that were friends, something cames along-it changes Fog just doesn't lift, old hotels and railway stations Where's the good in that? You just rush away and pack You became my big excuse The poison that I drink when I sink my teeth in you You became my big excuse You don't get my name, all you get's my reputation Always been the same, played it close or isolated But just around the bend, something's gotta end I keep too much in, know I'm not much company If you land in darkness, no one can keep up Nobody could You became my big excuse The poison that I drink when I sink my teeth in you You became my big excuse Could be a long, long, long time Getting over this Could be a long, long, long time Getting over...
4.
Things are changing all around here I'm a stranger to this life Still it's not so very far to fall Used to skip up to your steps Far from sorrow, still in wonder I'm so grateful now that you've reappeared It's the end of some fear, the end of some fear Well I know the story the evening brings The blonde women, the drunken swing But I want you and the world that cames with you I want to fill you up with laughter It's the end of some fear I'm a stranger to this life Things are changing all around here
5.
They're gonna bury you here when the apples are in season I knew the same taste and the fear for a while Not everyone can write like you do Not every clown can be in the circus Who will remember your tunes when you're gone? Once was mine, now it's yours You'll learn to live from door to door And that road you never travelled-this is it That hole in your life, who'll fix it? That hope that you had, what killed it? What killed it? The season has came to an end, all the boats are leaving The shoreline seems so far Not everyone can write like you do Not every clown can be in the circus That kitten that purrs in your soul, you'll never drown. Once was mine , now it's yours You'll learn to live from door to door And that road you never travelled-this is it That hole in your life, who'll fix it? That hope that you had, what killed it? What killed it? Once was mine, now it's yours You'll learn to live from door to door And that road you never travelled-this is it That hole in your life, who'll fix it? That hope that you had, what killed it? What killed it? I wanna slow everything down. I want back. Who will remember your tunes? I will
6.
Here's to the losers. Some get away, some fall behind We're not getting any younger How could I ask you to be kind? All of us failures here, we're staring down the past Where the good times rolled I get tired of living or maybe I'm just tired of who I am All I've done adds up to nothing. It's not a thing you'd plan Well thank you for making me beg New I'd like to get out of my head Here's to the losers who have given up their ghosts Who have lost all their connections Who go missing every boat People say "Are you glad to be here? How dumb can you get?" Oh I can get that dumb I get tired of living, or maybe I'm just tired of who I am Failure blows away all your childish plans So thank you for making me beg Now I'd like to get out of my head I spent a long stretch in Dullsville just trying to get on All the lights went rushing past me. Something good, gone All of us failures we're staring down the past Where the good times rolled I get tired of living or maybe I'm just tired of who I am Tell me-are you tired of who I am? Are you tired of who I am?
7.
Will we ever make it to shore? Who will follow you down? Who will follow you there? Your demons fade... you drift all day You say you don't know what it is to be happy You hide behind your little girl voices And baby doll noises Nothing could poison, poison you now I will paint the days white Fill them with light Cos I know there's nothing left for you I know there's nothing left Know there's nothing left for you in that life Your demons fade, they go away You say you don't know what it was that once mattered Your eyes Your little girl dresses, baby doll guesses All the worlds yeses followed you round I will paint the days white Fill them with light Cos I know there's nothing left for you I know there's nothing left there's nothing left for you in that life You're at the bottom of nowhere on a Spring day
8.
You can't get in, you're forgotten Because you've never had to fold You tbought your luck would always hold You're just a shadow, you walk the old familiar streets You count the friands you never meet The goodbye train, some of us went on it for a while The goodbye train, come along and took you for a ride The goodbye train You're not lost or broken yet you're not lost or broken yet Through bitterness and on through chaos You visit all the crummy rooms, stale sweat and old perfume Kiss off the past, your dead illusions Now tell me Pussycat, what's new? Tell me where your hopes went to The goodbye train, some of us went on it for a while The goodbye train You're not lost or broken yet you're not lost or broken yet You can't give in, you can't give in Not you, not you Sunny Jim You can't give in... When I met you, you wore black stockings You liked your powder white, it was such a pretty sight Give nothing away, no dark confession But if you came walking through the door I could be Desperately Yours But the goodbye train come along and took you for a The goodbye train, the goodbye You're not lost or broken yet, You're not lost or broken yet You can't give in, you can't give in Not you, not you Sunny Jim You're not lost or broken yet, You're not lost or broken yet Where are you now my dark obsession? I walk the streets in dead man's shoes Through smoke & rain...
9.
Your working days are over now You were on the road almost forty years Every Monday morning you'd disappear The children lie there in their pyjamas Then rush outside to wave goodbye But you were gone, you and your nightmare That we'd grow up and grow apart It was your job, there was no way around it You've never known any other life And now you've got All the time in the world now How are you gonna kill it? All the time in the world Your working days are over now So now you're painting all the empty rooms You're always barefoot, gave away your suits You can play Sinatra any time you like A vanisbed world surrounds you as you close your eyes Let me say, you're such a good man I wanted te turn out as good as you I cut my teeth on disappointment so far What is it that makes us who we are? All the time in the world now How are you gonna kill it? All the time in the world

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released April 2, 2021

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