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You’re a scarecrow baby, standing with open arms
Got myself a scarecrow; put in it my crow farm
Making statues of your family, in clay and paste
Drifting from the front to the back, never quite in the right place

And jealousy is just another word for insecurity
I don’t have to talk about the past any more
I’m not sleeping in prison but I’m sleeping in the city
You’re fighting sleep, darling, what are you fighting for?

The coast is clear, lighthouse keeper’s on the run
He said, “Hand me a stencil, I’ll show you the shape of things to come”
He’ll beg you for money, out in the midnight gloom
He says “show me where you were born, and I’ll show your tomb”

He’s pale like the moon, dragging in front of his chains
He warns “they’ll take from you what you love the most”
I’ve been haunting this island for years, I see my chains
But we ain’t the same man, I’m not a ghost

I saw a comet last night
Did you see it?
Did you point your guitar at the sky, wishing you could be it?
Or did you just blink, and miss it?

You ain’t a slave girl, but I know your back still hurts
You’re out working; I’m here chipping away at frozen words
You were my first love, and I’m in love with you now
It’s just everybody in between, I want to forget about

Who’s that guy over there looking at you funny?
He just made a copy of your credit card
It’s time like this I’m glad we ain’t got no money
All of the other times, it’s just hard

I saw a comet last night
Did you see it?
Did you stand on your porch with my letters, wishing you could be it?
Or did you blink, and miss it?

You can’t hear a pin drop in the middle of storm
Why would anyone want to hear a pin drop? I just want to hear the storm
Went to a drive-in cinema, wanted to watch the past
It wasn’t the past I wanted; it was just you, back here with me at last

Memories are like diamonds, until they get stolen
From that safe that you keep in the back of your mind
Show me a man who ain’t afraid of time
I’ll show you a man that’s truly alive

I saw a comet last night
Did you see it?
Did you stand there with your urn in your hands, wishing you could be it?
Or did you just blink, and miss it?

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from The Life You Hit, released October 11, 2010

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