Ruthlessly electric

Cold-pwned, common sense-deficient

I collect my severance, smile, and wave goodbye

Mumbling uncertainty and

Shaken, like a Polaroid, I taxi to the carpark in the sky

There was someone in my room last night that made me feel at home

It was everything I could to go alone

But, if you're like me, you run like hell and get to see the world

'Til you find yourself in Brighton, missin' a girl

Who never even noticed you were gone

'Cause you're almost always gone

Chasin' bets on reds and greens

But if you can't build foundries, shucks, you might as well be happy

Even if you end up lonesome in between

And if someone pumps your blood, tonight, and you don't feel alone

You should remember, kid, what's in your blood's your own

And if you're like me, you travel light and get there in the end

And you are always within arm's reach of a friend

But, hey: c'mon, just listen for a minute

You know my voice is low and weak

But I was middle of the sentence

When you started to bleat, bleat, bleat

You don't deserve him, and you know it

You're not fooling anyone

Somebody send in Henry Gibson

'Cause I'm not having any fun

If I could see myself in primers, would I feel like I feel today?

How could I ever tell my younger self that it'd be okay?

When I'm still looking over shoulders?

And I'm in poor and failing health?

How could you ever have the balls to kid yourself?

But I'm not going crazy

I'm in Georgia, trading shut-eye for a midnight run to cotton-copy sand

It's a moonlit night, by proxy, not as bright a light as vibrant plankton trapped, like diamond dancers, in our hands

Oh, the kid said, "They only feed at night, in shallow flows like ours"

And there had been a hundred incidents, so far

But if you're like me, you dive in head first

Straight into the brine

And though you always come up scratched, you're mostly fine

Yeah!

But, then, some stupid grabbed my ankle

And I jumped in shock and fear

Oh, E

I hadn't thought of you in years