This Band Is Killing Us - Johnny Foreigner

Trip around the house reading atlases at night

How we barely beat the dawn back home

The streets have fallen out but the story’s better told

I don’t know if we’re still talking but I know you talk about me sometimes

Trip around the house reading atlases at night

How we barely beat the dawn back home

Making car trips and memories and dropping out of classes

I don’t know if we’re still talking but I know you talk about me sometimes

I feel the

All the sleep we’ve lost

I was staring at my shoes in a service station carpark when you called

Dedication versus time loss

The righteousness everybody lost

We’re happy but God knows we’re barely holding lives or real jobs

All the attempts, all the gin left

All the blistered fingernail dents we’ve grown

All those broken sticks and strings

We replaced, they’d break, we replaced, they’d break again

On that grateful first night

Between chants and

Maybe I’m exaggerating slightly but not

This band is killing us