Walking at a Downtown Pace - Parquet Courts

I’m making plans for the day all of this is through

Seeing my path there

Hearing the song I’ll sing and food that I’ll taste and all the drinks that

I’ll consume

Return the smile of an unmasked friend

As we take streets I don’t walk down cause I want to avoid

Fighting temptation

Walk at a downtown pace and treasure the crowds that once made me act so annoyed

Sometimes I wonder how long 'till I’m a face in one?

You’d be surprised to learn what you could bear to lose

Wanting and needing, not getting either one

And planning the future as the time we also choose

Pick out a movie, a sandwich from the street

Yeah, how many days in life will I spend underground?

Hours in total;

as many as it takes

And how many ways of feeling lousy have I found?

Lately I’ve counted

I’ve found a reason to exist

Living on the top

Of the casual

Begging not to go extinct

How many times now have I walked into that room

With the day shining through purple film combining?

Sound from the corners that you use yourself to tune

Like a piano, well tuned and walking slowly

Socks on the carpet while some kid watches my shoes

Feeling the sun like a bolt of lightning

House of dreams you were once my girl for New York City blues

Is this goodbye then?

Will you be on the other side?

Waiting there for me

Nothing left to want

Cashing in my claim to the world

Nothing more supreme

On the other side

Waiting there for me

Nothing left to want

Cashing in my claim to the world

Nothing more supreme