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Niagara

from The Life You Hit by Callum Baird

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I was picking through the bones of St Petersburg, like many men before me
I was flying a single-engine plane, across the Mississippi
I built myself a house at the crossroads, sometimes there’s nothing to choose
I was wearing a rain coat; I had the stock-market blues

War paint dancing on cave walls, space station coming crashing down
We’re living in a shipwreck, even the rats are getting out of town

Feel the patchwork wind, spreading across the mid-west
I’ve known gamblers and thieves, I’ve known solitude best
The web spins across the dust bowl, and through the Boston choir
Hits the city running, hits it with cold barbed wire

And its skipping chains in the schoolyard, rust on cathedral doors
People searching for paradise, paradise ain’t here no more

Oh, it’s back in the dice cup of the gods
Oh, you can’t get back what you haven’t lost

She paints pictures of Niagara, just watching the water fall
Helicopter sickness, theatre posters on the wall
Just when you’ve got it all sewn up, that’s when it falls apart
City boys just copy and paste their hearts

And they got more fashion weeks, than they got weeks in a year
The sun’s got a price on its head; even the rats are getting out of here

Oh, and it’s in the birthplace of the blues
You can’t get back what you didn’t lose

Flat cap hanging down, smoking by the train line
Everybody’s on Main Street, tonight
Mayor says don’t listen to your souls, follow your hearts
And the townspeople wave flags as they watch the children march

And they come back feeling invincible; sometimes invincible is as good as dead
Back out on the streets with a mine-cart rattling through your head

Oh, and it’s in the ghost of mining towns
You don’t go through you just go around
Oh, and it’s in the dice cup of the gods
You can’t get back what you haven’t lost

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from The Life You Hit, released October 11, 2010

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