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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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There weren't any curtains in the front room and I couldn't sleep once the sun showed up with it's heavy August heat
Verse 2
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The bars had been whatever. We shouldn't have even bothered. But after we went back to Fletchers with the best part of a handle and a plan to lay out the remainder on the table,
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Then Fletcher got the text from this chick Steph he'd met last weekend. Said she was out with girlfriends and they had gone out
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dancing but now the clubs were closing. They were all dressed up. They didn't really want to go home quite yet.
Verse 4
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So then there were the three of them drinking vodka in the kitchen. Tiny shiny dresses. Steph and two others. One of them was
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gorgeous but seemed a little stand off. So I chatted up the short one until she brought up her boyfriend.
Verse 5
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A little later some kids we used to skate with came traipsing up the stairs with a case of Coors Banquet. Said they saw the lights on
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and thought that they should check in. They entered with their arms raised like victors. The whole thing had momentum.
Verse 6
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I was standing on the staircase looking over the proceedings. Thinking that these dudes were mostly decent and I'd known them all forever and friends
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should stick together and I'm sick of all the sadness and I gotta stop thinking about Seattle. It's probably good enough right here.
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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back there in the morning with the bottles and the fruit flies and the ashtrays and the headache and the heavy sun and sticky floors,
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I wasn't really sure if I thought that it was good anymore. Found my shoes in the foyer in a jumble of sneakers and one silver high heel.
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came out of Fletcher's bedroom and went into the bathroom. She was trying to be quiet but I think I heard her vomit. She
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ran the water a long time and she came out chewing gum. Still in the same dress she'd worn out to the clubs.
Verse 9
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I put my shoes on I went out to the sidewalk and squinted in the bright light. She came out and stood there on the front
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steps with the high heel in her purse. The sunlight made sparkles on her sequins. I wished I had my shades.
Verse 10
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She cursed her friends that left her. Said she couldn't wait for Fletcher. She asked if I had cigs
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and I did. She spit her gum in the gutter. Leaned in as I lit it. At first she smelled like spearmint.
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Then she smelled like
Verse 11
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en am Sunday we walked down University towards Broadway. Stopped to get some coffee. She told me she's a hostess at a res
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Now she's staying at her mother's in New Brighton. Trying to save some money. But her mother can't stay sober and she's sort of scared to leave
Interlude 2
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Verse 13
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On a bench along the river we watched a dragonfly and it's partner hover just above the water. She said she loves summer and
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she's sad it's almost over. She gets depressed around September. Reminds her of going back to school.
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I told her how last year I'd gone out to Seattle for a wedding and my cousin took us sailing on Lake Union. And in the middle of the stillness
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I felt an urgency to live where nobody knows me. Where all my prior sin s couldn't be held against me.
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I keep thinking about just moving there and crashing with my cousin. Doing landscaping or something. But my cousin has two children and
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Seattle is expensive and funds have been elusive. It'll probably never happen and that's probably just as well.
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don't want to be some dude that makes a big deal out of moving then comes back a few months later a total goddamn failure. Like
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when Fletcher went to Denver. He had three kegs at his send off. Then he came back before Christmas and everyone was laughing.
Verse 17
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They won't let him forget it and they wont let him outlive it. Behind his back they call him Rocky Mountain Fletcher. They'll destroy you just
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for trying something different. Now my voice was cracking. Pretty close to crying. She put her head against my shoulder.
Verse 18
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Said the ones that we've known longest can pull us down the strongest. I put my arm around her and we sat and watched
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the water. Jealous of the movement of the current but maybe for a moment it was pretty good right here.
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