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about

I wrote this song after the 2016 election. It's not so much politically charged but rather inspired by events going on around that time. Donald Trump was elected president the same week Leonard Cohen died.
This song is about all the chaos in the world that goes on regardless of the minor decisions you make (or don't make).

lyrics

Starlight is farlight, near sight is blind
I don't have the strength to be told
The way we've become and the reasons behind
Nothingness in everything gold
So she sits by the bar in the dimmest of lights
Like a flyswatter ready to strike
I've always heard she comes here on the darkest of nights
God knows we're so much alike
chorus
Sit back down, sit back down
Restless fool with the drink in your hand
Sit back down until the next round
You've got no reason to stand
Goin' home alone means goin' home alone
There's no one to wait for you there
Just the light from the fridge and the light from your phone
Just the light from the street lamp's aware
The timeclock it bleeds, full of hurricane seeds
And you're just a name on a wall
The glare on the tiles and the sounds down the aisles
Who'll pick you up if you fall?
Repeat Chorus
The night's full of sheen like a pinball machine
Misguided by billboards and lights
But tomorrow's obscene like the things that we've seen
Memories of hustling and fights
The violence outside like an albatross glides
Across from street to street
You hide behind curtains but always uncertain
If you're safe or merely discrete
Repeat Chorus
Your heroes fought strong but your heroes are gone
Defeated in the battle of time
But your heart stays afloat despite the lump in your throat
You hide as if it were a crime
Your soul with emotion, these streets with commotion
Our minds might as well be paved
Because we're all the same as the alleys and lanes
Ran over but we can't be saved
Repeat Chorus
There's a crack neath the dirt and the boulevard's hurt
The avenues cry out for help
But the red lights abide by what the tire marks hide
There must be some way to save yourself
So pull up the pavement and dig up the dirt
Leave all the ditches to drain
Resurface the marks on your vandalized heart
And detour the nerves from your pain
Repeat Chorus
There's snakes on a plane and sex on a train
There's an old man asleep in his car
There's a prayer that's in vain
There's a dream full of rain
And then there's that girl at the bar
You've probably gone postal, intercostal
You've probably gone out in the cold
But starlight's still farlight and nearsight is blind
You don't have the strength to be told
Repeat Chorus

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from The Goat Album (AKA Songs About Hurricanes, Dollar Stores, and Talking Horses), released April 20, 2018

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Ryan Garrett Russell Springs, Kentucky

Singer/Songwriter from Russell Springs, Kentucky. All instruments, lyrics, and compositions by Ryan Garrett unless otherwise noted.

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