Lovecraft in Brooklyn

[Verse 1]

It's gonna be too hot to breathe today

But everybody is out here on the streets

Somebody's opened up a fire hydrant

Cold water rushing out in sheets

Some kid in a Marcus Allen jersey

Asks me for a cigarette

Companionship is where you find it

So I take what I can get

[Chorus 1]

Hubcaps on the cars like fun house mirrors

Stick to the shadows when I can

Lovecraft in Brooklyn

[Verse 2]

When the sun goes down, the armies of the voiceless

Several hundred-thousand strong

Come out without their bandages

Their voices raised in song

And when the street lights sputter out

They make this awful sizzling sound

I cast my gaze toward the pavement

Too many blood stains on the ground

[Chorus 2]

Rhode Island drops into the ocean

No place to call home anymore

Lovecraft in Brooklyn

[Bridge]

Head outside most everyday

To try to keep the wolves away

Imagine nice things I might say

If company should come

[Verse 3]

Woke up afraid of my own shadow

Like, genuinely afraid

Headed for the pawnshop

To buy myself a switchblade

Someday something's coming

From way out beyond the stars

To kill us while we stand here

It'll store our brains in Mason jars

[Chorus 3]

And then the girl behind the counter

She asks me how I feel today

I feel like Lovecraft in Brooklyn

[Outro]

Yeah