Smoke Signals

[Verse 1]

I went with you to the place you grew up

And we spent a week in the cold

Just long enough to Walden it with you

Any longer, it would've got old

Singing "Ace of Spades" when Lemmy died

But nothing's changed, LA's alright

I'm sleeping in my bed again

And getting in my head and then

Walk around the reservoir

[Chorus]

And you

You must've been waiting for me

Sending smoke signals

Pelicans circling

Burning trash out on the beach

[Verse 2]

And one of your eyes is always half-shut

Something happened when you were a kid

I didn't know you then and I will never understand

Why it feels like I did

"How Soon Is Now" in an eighties sedan

You slept inside it because your dad

Lived in a campground in the back of a van

You said that song will creep you out until you're dead

[Chorus]

And you

You must've been looking for me

Sending smoke signals

Pelicans circling

Burning trash out on the beach

[Verse 3]

And I want to live at the Holiday Inn

Where someone else makes the bed

We'll watch TV whilst the lights on the street

Put all the stars to death

It's been on my mind since Bowie died

Just checking out to hide from life

And all of our problems, yeah, I'm gonna solve them

With you riding shotgun

Speeding 'cause fuck the cops

[Chorus]

And you

You must have been looking for me

Sending smoke signals

Pelicans circling

Burning trash out on the beach

[Verse 4]

I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender

The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor

I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall

You are anonymous, I am a concrete wall

[Outro]

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