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The Menzingers
On the Impossible Past
Burn After Writing

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Burn After Writing

Release date: 20th February 2012

From On the Impossible PastTrack 23:03

Alternative Music Punk Rock

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About This Track

"Burn After Writing" is a track by The Menzingers, from the album On the Impossible Past, released 20th February 2012. The track is 3:03 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about The Menzingers.

About the Artist

The Menzingers

The Menzingers

Lyrics

Burn After Writing

Here's to you, the same chords that I stole
From a song that I once heard
The same melody I borrowed from the void
I'd rather observe than structure a narrative
The characters are thin; the plot does not develop
It ends where it begins

It's on the screen, in paperbacks
In Section 8 and cul-de-sacs
Electro haikus and drunk sonnets
Are moving me along

You cut my hair
You left red ink everywhere
Do my hands tell a story?
Is it boring?

You cut my hair
You left red ink everywhere
Do my hands tell a story?
Is it boring you?

What I'd give to force your sigh
What I'd give to see you cry
What I'd give for your caress
To see your blue cotton dress
Balled up on the floor

Certain memories are the problem
Certain drunken lines are the shame
Seven hundred miles and four years
I can't fight the flame, it burns
And it burns, and it burns, and it burns

You cut my hair
You left red ink everywhere
Do my hands tell a story?
Is it boring?

You cut my hair
You left red ink everywhere
Do my hands tell a story?
Is it boring you?

Was I wishing on satellites?
Tell me how you've been doing that trick
I'm just wishing the flame away
Now I'm wishing the flame away

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Track details

From On the Impossible Past

3:032012

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Album

On the Impossible Past

20th February 2012

Track number

2

Release year

2012

1Good Things
2:23
2Burn After Writing
3:03
3The Obituaries
3:16
4Gates
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