Living Up To Let You Down - Into It. Over It.

Cut me loose, a nine-hour excuse

A sunset visit to the reddest of states

It’s new blues for the highway to choose

I-65 for when the hour is late

It’s over or it’s under

It’s on the East side

And it’s the setting for getting better

Apply the brakes and clip a common mistake

It’s not a problem just to sit here and wait

Don’t you know what they’re about?

Living up to let you down

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us

Bonfires, drives the desire

Between the suburbs and what’s left of this place

Tattoos, new boots and a noose

Now just reminders of the city you hate

It’s over or it’s under

It’s a disaster

And we keep betting it’s getting better

It’s well-spun for those who’ve turned 21

But getting older doesn’t brighten the day

So don’t you know what they’re about?

Living up to let you down

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home

We just sing along

But the feeling’s gone

I’ve got a couple dozen cities I could share with you

A couple stories we could tuck beneath a tennis shoe

A couple secrets we could hide between each others' hands

A couple moments we could squeeze between some other plans

We’ve got a couple different futures we could call our own

A shared apartment or just talking on the telephone

You’ll move a block away and we’ll go on with both our lives

In cold conditions with a past of alternating dives

Stiff drinks, abandoned before they sink

Another neighborhood carefully drowned

Farewell from the fever to tell

We need to move this to a new side of town

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home

And I’ll sing along

But the feeling’s gone

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us home

So quick to strike up a tune on every evening where I carry us