Volunteers - Paul Dempsey

Hey

I retraced my steps

I dusted my memory for fingerprints

Your haunted head

Is nowhere in sight

Yeah we were on a roll

Unstoppable now

Unexamined like a flyover town

A siren describing a stranger’s house

While we trophy around

And light ourselves up

‘Cause we need to remember about as much as my drink

Needs an orange umbrella

Baby this kind of stuff

Don’t happen to smart kids like us

Tell me how

Was I supposed to know

I’d be the one

Who let you go?

Now

I stumble out of

Yeah I stumble ‘round a room

That don’t have walls anymore

Hey

I didn’t feel a thing

Call it a calling

My specialty

Come the night

Well there’s no need to start

Wrapping my rattled head ‘round your absent heart

Now volunteers

Awake in a dream

With transplant scars up and down your sleeves

And squeaky minds to feed

Before the shock of finding

That nothing profound

Comes from all the magnificent shit you talk about

Babe, when that one wears off

You’re gonna need a whole new shock

Tell me how

Was I supposed to know

I’d be the one

Who let you go?

Now

I stumble out of

Yeah I stumble ‘round a room

That don’t have walls anymore

A room that don’t have a door anymore

In circles running my hand against the wall

Tell me how

Was I supposed to know

I’d be the one

Who let you go?

Now

I stumble out

Yeah I stumble ‘round a room

That don’t have walls anymore