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Combing through the city on a late night drive
Searching for a pulse, for a sign of you
To keep you alive in my mind

Thinking of what once was
And what could have been
A these same old buildings
Glare down at me with a derisive grin

I've soldiered on through the change
The transitions and the pain
Harboring hopeless illusions
That things will stay the same
But reality cannot reconcile with my brain

The city lights they don't burn as bright
Lifting their feeble glow has now become their plight
Since you sought distant horizons
And drove away from sight
Leaving me with these ghosts of the city tonight

Now you're gone from this place for good
Moving forward towards the future
Like I know I should
But I'm clinging to a distant memory
Bringing me short term happiness
But a terminal misery

I've soldiered on through the change
The transitions and the pain
Harboring hopeless illusions
That things will stay the same
But reality cannot reconcile with my brain

The city lights they don't burn as bright
Lifting their feeble glow has now become their plight
Since you sought distant horizons
And drove away from sight
Leaving me with these ghosts of the city tonight

Echoes of voices' past ring out
In the recess of these concrete cracks
Trapped between steel sepulchers
An urban specter constructs this epitaph

The city lights they don't burn as bright
Lifting their feeble glow has now become their plight
Since you sought distant horizons
And drove away from sight
Leaving me with these ghosts of the city tonight

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from The Hand That Mocked, The Heart That Fed, released November 29, 2020

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Both of them like philosophy and punk rock and literature and the Reds and being accidentally pretentious by pretending to be pretentious. Brandon also has a fervent distaste for gilded-age mustache core. See Pitchfork for an example. ... more

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