Mardi Gras Beads - Parquet Courts

It’s sad our goodbyes sound nostalgic

Your chords swung me from an ol' holler tree

I’m living like a vagabond that just can’t decide when to leave

With roots are in the rhythm to my mood, it swings

I found, even is impossible to keep

Everyday starting up a balance beam

Still, you’re steady with me always carrying the melody

Smiling all the while the paint chips off of my mala prayer beads

It’s the images, contained, not the lens or frames

Recalled to my mind before I fall asleep

A list of regrets is no place to be

I’m coming in late but I’ll never modulate us to the minor key

Smiling all the while the paint chips off of my Mardi Gras beads