Strange Boy - The Shacks, Listener

It’s been 30 days, maybe 34

Since I left my house, tossed and grown out

The fires burn below

Pistons creak and groan

Under my feet the tension grows

Built up like the leaves around my door

They can say it better than I can

After months of neglect

I can start over again if I would just let it

This is how we live, when we live somewhere

With quiet nights inside making plans to make a life

To keep it all safe inside and outside

Dear anyone, do you know what that’s like

Remembering all of it

Our building pieces stacked on top

Hanging over each other and packed in

Keep it simple

Keep it

When you don’t go on

Your song lives on

When I don’t go on

The channel turns against the keel

There’s no turning back

Thumbing my buttons

Nervously in my bed under cold sheets

Hiding the thunder inside of me

My young wife made this shirt

I’m turning in the surf

With my hat in my hand and my feet off the ground

At least it’s a start

If it has to be, I’ll starve on my own payroll

Trying to make living better

I think that was the goal

The oils moves, feeds the machine, the pressure builds

The war outside is rattling

Pushes smoke out past the rings

My heart’s been dreaming about sparks

This heavy pull is strengthening my last resolve

It’s all burnt up

The fire’s gone

You can have it all

An early morning calls

And I’m not there to start

My watch is on the table ticking in the dark

And there’s money in the walls of my heart

And I left it there for you

Even if it all has to end, I’m still glad you were my friend

May it kill what ails you and never fail you

Three fingers in the wind

Yeah, three fingers in the wind

When we don’t go on

When you don’t go on

Your song lives on

When I don’t go on

Sing along with me

Your song lives on

Our song lives on

I’ll sing along with you

Just sing along with me

When you don’t go on

Your song lives on

When I don’t go on

Sing along with me

Your song lives on

Our song lives on

I’ll sing along with you

So sing along with me

When you don’t go on

Your song lives on

When I don’t go on

Sing along with me

Your song lives on

Our song lives on

I’ll sing along with you

So sing along with me

(We don’t go on

Our song lives on)