Just Sign the Papers - Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties

At a big wooden table

In an office off Ann Street

It might as well be the ocean

For as far as you feel from me

But honey, baby, please

Shit I’m sorry

I didn’t mean to call you honey

I trace the grain with my finger

Keep my eyes low, stir my coffee

I shoulda let you go sooner

I know that I made this harder than it had to be

And I’m sorry

I’ve been the same asshole since you met me

You were the tail lights, like a lifeline

When the storm arrived

I followed you all night till the rain died

Like a long goodbye

I tune out while the lawyers

Start to rewrite all our history

The things that we built together

Get torn down brick by brick and dispersed out evenly

Burn the memories

Spread the ashes over Fort Greene

You were the tail lights, like a lifeline

When the storm arrived

I followed you all night till the rain died

Like a long goodbye

And then at sunrise in the daylight

I watched as you pull aside

I loved you like taillights, like a lifeline

Like a long goodbye

C-come on, just sign the papers

Don’t make me stay in the room

I don’t want this to be the way that I remember you

C-come on, just sign the papers

Don’t make me stay in the room

In a slant of sunlight I watch pools of ink dry blue

C-come on, just sign the papers

Don’t make me stay in the room

I can’t keep my hands steady but I press my pen down too

C-come on, just sign the papers

Don’t make me stay in the room

From the end of my name I swore I saw daylilies bloom

Come on, just sign the papers

Let’s find an end to the gloom

I’m sorry for every single thing I put you through