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Fire Escape Heartbreak

from Lazarus by Ben Mish

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FIRE ESCAPE HEARTBREAK

I’m just creepin’ down the fire escape
I don’t need you now and it’s getting late
I’m thinking, while I’m sneakin’ down the fire escape
Of how peaceful you look when you’re not awake
I’m just sneakin’ down this solitary way
Now your daddy’s gone, seem he’s gone astray
You dream of his red taillights as they sped away
You drown in those dreams, you sink into the gray
But it’s just a heartbreaker
When you need somebody
And the money’s tight
And you’re assigned a fate
And I want you to sleep well
So I said I’d be there tonight
What exactly was it that was stolen away?
You’re older now, you’re so much older now
And you think that youth is wasted on the young
But you’re wild about beginnings and you think something has begun
It’s just a heartbreaker
When you need somebody
I can’t describe what I’ve never seen
When people ask, I’ll say, “I think I knew it once”
But I had you, baby, in an eternal embrace
And when the light came and blinded me from over your shoulder
It threw me off
It threw me off
You know, nothin’ lasts forever
I may escape
But nothin’ lasts forever
This has to end
Just like everything else does
I’m just sneakin’, sneakin’, sneakin’ away
Like your father, girl, but my hair’s not gray
The neon is buzzin’ and I feel afraid
No more safe, boxed up apartments
Now it’s just wide open space
It’s just a heartbreaker
When you need somebody
And the need beats you down
When the money’s tight
And you’re assigned a fate
But you don’t have to accept being naked
Don’t blame me
Blame your heartbreak
On the fire escape
I didn’t build it
It just made things easy
Look at all these buildings
Put up 50 years ago
I didn’t lay the mortar
I didn’t set the stone
But I use this place, baby
I call it my home but
I know I took the fire escape
Though I didn’t create it
It was outside the window
And when things get hot
I know it’s a heartbreaker
When the money’s tight
And you’re assigned a fate
But don’t blame me for your heartbreak
Blame it on the fire escape

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from Lazarus, released June 7, 2017

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