Navigating The Windward Passage

Navigating The Windward Passage

Lawrence Arms (The)
(album: Apathy And Exhaustion)

Drinking deathwish
Nights can´t save this.
Glasseyed slackjaws
Scream from safe homes.
I´ve got it wrong.
Time and again,
Song after song.
You´ve got answers:
Killing to please,
Swooning disasters.
So inventory me,
Drop me in your fishbowl.
I´m dying to breathe
Through your tight pigeon hole.

A dead man in dead dreams
When I´m gone you won´t miss me.
You´re dying to fist me

Out of the closet
And into the fire.
Out of these dumb
Little quips that inspire.
Outright outrage
Enrages you now.
You´re lifeless and sticky.
Kicking dead cows.
Fuck you sound.

One shot, all wrong.
One lie, all gone.
So cry for yourselves,
I´ll die with my own help.
These words are mine
And this grave that we share
Time after time
Chokes my life out
While you ask yourselves
What I´m crying about.
Well, these tears that are falling
Are wetting deaf ears.
You cry for your protests
And say I don´t care.
I couldn´t care less
I don´t answer to you.
I couldn´t care less
If you´re repulsed
Through and through.

A dead man in dead dreams
When I´m gone you won´t miss me.
You´re dying to fist me

Out of the closet
And into the fire.
Out of these dumb
Little quips that inspire.
Outright outrage
Enrages you now.
You´re lifeless and sticky.
Kicking dead cows.
Fuck you sound.

When it´s all said and done,
Did you really think
That you were the only one?
You were here before you,
You´ll be here when you´re gone.
Just another lemming
Humming protest songs.

Out of the closet
And into the fire.
Out of these dumb
Little quips that inspire.
Outright outrage
Enrages you now.
You´re lifeless and sticky.
Kicking dead cows.
Fuck you sound.