No Man is an Island (But Manhattan Is)

from Code Switch by Without Eve

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New York isn't dead, it was a stillborn
And now we're just awaiting autopsies
There's no place like home for the hollow days
But I guess there's nowhere else that I can be

I hate the way you summer in the Hamptons
I hate the way you act like that's a thing
I'm spending all my money on the hopes that
Someday I can afford a diamond ring

You talk with the ferocity of schizos
But only when you've had a few to drink
My friends all tell me that I am an asshole
The world is all just darkness when I blink

Wick away the liquor from your lips, peach
Speak to me like you can read my mind
I don't think too much about the future
Mostly cause I never know the time

My arm's a bandolier across your chest babe
This bar is full of bullets in the air
I realized this city is a shithole
I'm realizing you never really cared

What was it they said about repenting?
Get rid of all your pent up energy
I remember as a kid I loved the ocean
Always said someday I'd sail the seven seas

But I'm stuck down here in the harbor, baby
Counting all the ships
Heard The Monitor and I'm armored lately
You're looking for the chips

Oh my god, tonight I think I'm tweaking
Freaking, speaking leaking words into your ear
Lock me up in straightjackets on subways
Right now I think I need to disappear

Brooklyn houses every goddamn graveyard
We're living next to dead men on the streets
If I die tonight I swear I'll kill myself
Let me revel in my own hypocrisy

So throw me in the ground all wrapped in satin
Let the children's choir sing sad poetry
And I will rise again with a prescription
Smoke two packs a day and pray I fall asleep

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from Code Switch, released August 22, 2015

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