Orphans - The Gaslight Anthem

Goodbye, circus wheel, maybe you rest along the seas

I have given you the fire of my youth and the triumph of my enemies

And goodbye, fair weather home and your faithless factories

I have given you the blood and the truth from the wounds that they laid on me

And whatever they left, I kept it for my own heart

And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head

We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret, my baby

On and on and on, how the alphabet boys carry on

And we were orphans before we were ever the sons in the songs

And now my lights, they never go down, they waltz the moon and the stars for me

now

So you can find some local libertine to take your daughters out on the town

And I can feel it in my aging bones, how the sound of the rain mixes up

Into the fountains where I drank my hero’s blood

And so I left you to find my very own hat full of rain

And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head

That we were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret, my baby

On and on and on, how the alphabet boys carry on

And we were orphans before we were ever the sons in the songs

And now I’m trying to keep it straight, learning all the streets and the

alleyways

And learning where they lead now that I’m left alone here to drive

But it’s so hard to stand on your own against mirrored glass hot and cold

But the clothes I wore just don’t fit my soul anymore

No, the clothes I wore just don’t fit my soul anymore

And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head

We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret, my baby

On and on and on, how the alphabet boys carry on

And we were orphans before we were ever the sons of your songs

When we were young we were diamond Sinatras

Like something I saw in a dream

We kept our secrets and rules locked up tight like a tomb

Where the ballerinas lay