Newport Mansions

by The Way Back When

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Told me you quit and I believed it
Fell down the stairs so I cut off my hair
What’s in the can if it’s not Pepsi
Falls to the floor don’t live there anymore
I’m running away ever since you told me
You couldn’t stay

I plan to sleep in the front seat
I spend my nights alone mostly
So by the time I say I’m sorry
You’ll already be organizing
Your ride home without me
From this abandoned cemetery
That I saunter through nightly
Every night that it’s not pouring

I might have lost it
Somewhere in Boston
When I flicked a smoke
Onto the sidewalk
It goes out
Out in the snow
So I pawned all your gifts
That I bought you for Christmas

I plan to sleep in the front seat
I spend my nights alone mostly
So by the time I say I’m sorry
You’ll already be organizing
Your ride home without me
From this abandoned cemetery
That I saunter through nightly
Every night that it’s not pouring

I saw your reflection
in mirrors of ancient Newport Mansions
Alone by the window
Stained by carbon monoxide
Your said you just don’t
See the resemblance
Of who I was when we first met and
I’ll remind myself it’s been a year since
I saw your reflection in Newport Mansions

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released February 15, 2019
Thank you to Tim Sullivan for tracking mixing and mastering, as well as our very own Jeremiah Bermel for the artwork.

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