I packed my bags with no sorrow / I’ll reach the western port by tomorrow / and when I get there / you better be waiting / when I make anchor things will get better / no more fights, no East Coast weather / it’ll be different / ‘cause this time I’m staying / we grew up in San Francisco / and every single summer we’d go / past the docks / to live on our own / then I built monuments to your lies / in the memory of your eyes / so I could move on / and function alone /
But I guess I must have changed my mind
I wonder / if the stars would give a damn / if the losers / gave up on counting them / or would they just shine the same old way / as I lose this fight most everyday / knowing that I’m waltzing to my grave / all alone /
I met a girl in New York / and I tried to get her number / 'cause she sang softly/ and looked a bit like you / and when I woke up in Philly / there was a girl who hardly knew me / and I needed her like a grifter needs the truth / so I spent all my money / on drowning alcohol in honey / but I got so high that I could only think of you / so when I get back to California / I’ll count the ways that I adore ya / sober up and we can live a better youth
I pray to God that you have changed your mind
I wonder / if the stars would give a damn / if the losers / gave up on counting them / or would they just shine the same old way / as I lose this fight most everyday / knowing that I’m waltzing to my grave / all alone /
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The Taxpayers were able to put down a tacklist of songs that allow us to go on a journey. In this album we experience the manic highs and lows one may experience in a life long battle with deteriorating mental health. The picture at times grim and beautiful is one I continually come back to as its tragedy never fades. Ulysses Johnson
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