San Cristóbal - Mal Blum

I have not been writing

that many new songs

how I wish I could stay longer

how I wish I’d never gone

You have not been writing

me as often as I wished

and sometimes I think I left you

just to see if I’d be missed

I saw my fortune scrawled out

up against the wall

in a crowded market place

in a town I can’t recall

and the teller told me that I would be

young and I would fall

but my new friends all assured me

that it all was surely false

Back at home, you found religion

in a dirty crystal ball

in the back of a dollar store

in that shopping mall

I found religion

out in San Cristobal

now I feel that I’ve come far enough

to give you a call

I have not been writing

as often as I’d hoped

but there are some things you’re good at

and then some you can’t control

You have not been visiting

I can’t say that I mind

'Cause every time you go somewhere

you leave somewhere behind

I saw my fortune scrawled out

up against the wall

in a crowded market place

in a town I can’t recall

and the teller told me that I would be

young and I would fall

but I didn’t think he meant so soon

so soon at all

Back at home, you found religion

in a dirty crystal ball

in the back of a dollar store

in that shopping mall

I found religion

out in San Cristobal

now I feel that I’ve come far enough

to give you a call

So I’m calling now but it says

I don’t got the number right

Your body looks to me

a way it never has before

and is this what’s making you so sad,

and what you did this for?

She said,

your body looks to me

a way it never has before

and is this what’s making you so sad,

and I can’t do this anymore

I found religion in a dirty bathroom stall

in the back of a liquor store

in that mini mall

you found religion

when you realized you could fall

now you say that you’ve come far enough

to give me a call

So you’re calling now,

but I lie and I tell you that I moved

Everything’s brand new.