Buzzkill Caterwaul - Kyle Craft

Once you were the talk of the town

Oh, once you were the life of the party, you’re a buzzkill now

And it’s so strange to see you caving in

Kicking up dust on a long road, honey, always tryin' to begin

But you found forty bucks in a hotel bible

In a run-down room with nothing on TV

And you acted out your lines there in the mirror

You could act out all that nothin' perfectly

So you conjured up a borrowed voice and new suit

And you stole a light for all that shadowplay

And you won the crowd in Brooklyn with your cheap tricks

Like you won the crowd with sweet talk in LA

Well, you don’t see the air you breathe

The weather’s warm and welcoming every day and night

And you don’t see the web they weave is one of many

Hanging off the Hollywood sign

But you ain’t gonna shake my bones with all that caterwaul

And you ain’t gonna shake my bones with all that pretty talk

On paper, it’s an empty ruse

On paper, it’s an empty tomb

A paperboy’s nothing new, but you don’t know it all

You don’t know it all

Once you were the talk of the town

Oh, once you were the showboat honey, but your ship sailed out

And it hurt bad when you heard the stranger say

That your bird in the hand was a flash in the pan when you let it fly away

You were supposed to be in the park on a billboard, singin'

And every passerby wonders where you’re gone

You been stowed up in your attic, always thinkin'

'Bout the next big plan for all your little songs

And you don’t keep bad company

How do you not say a single thing when you talk that long?

When you don’t see the air you breathe

What’s there to write about when nothing’s going wrong?

But you ain’t gonna shake my bones with all that caterwaul

And you ain’t gonna shake my bones with all that pretty talk

On paper, it’s an empty ruse

On paper, it’s an empty tomb

A paperboy’s nothing new, but you don’t know it all

You don’t know it all

You don’t know it all

You never knew it all