We’ve Come A Long Way

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Dirty old boots on a dusty dancefloor stomping to a beat hard to resist. Playing drums with rusty spoons. Singing old, forgotten tunes and hymns about the things that we have missed. Collecting smiles from the ladies on the porches and warning glances from their boys at the bar. We've come a long way but we're still not meant to stay here. It goes on and on and on and on and on. Dance with me only once so that I can say that it was me who shared the stage with the finest girl on earth just before the band stopped playing. And have you seen those two old men sitting on the bench and drinking wine? Tell the older one to go and the one with the hoof that I'm just not ready yet. Put my heart into a box and just leave it somewhere so that it might feed the wolves in winter. Carry out the empty coffin. There is no one here to mourn or shed a tear. There is no one standing next to the hole we'll put the box in to bury it under the mud. Who am I to be there when they dump him? Who am I to be there when he disappears? He has done it all before when he decided to go and live a life of his own. I didn't really know him anyway. The kind of guy you meet, leave and forget. It was fun while it lasted and fine when it ended but I won't lay the sailor to rest.

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from We’ve Come A Long Way, released September 16, 2011

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