Mass - Modern Baseball

Pulled over at midday

The joker’s still wet behind the ears

He hands off a novel of novice citations outside the service station

The glue sets beneath our heels

My baby’s in Massachusetts

And all this booze is useless

Sunset, sing my scratched-out, sighing soul to sleep

And the cashier here is ruthless

Jeanette, I wrote your name down

But I’d hate that job as much as you do

If I was stuck between

Barton and Binghamton too

Days like this, I miss listening to records

Making coffee together, snowglobes and Jersey sheets

I tried sleeping in our bed without you last night

That didn’t work at all, 'cause I couldn’t sleep

Sometimes, I wish it was still last summer

And you still lived in South Philly

And I wasn’t playing a show in Nebraska, or Austin, Texas

Asking the kids what they ate for breakfast

But here I am, Valero bathroom

Who’s paid to keep these things cliché?

Bury me beneath New York State

It’s the only place where I feel dead

My baby’s in Massachusetts

And all this booze is useless

Sunset, sing my scratched-out, sighing soul to sleep

And the cashier here is ruthless

Jeanette, I wrote your name down

But I’d hate that job as much as you do

If I was stuck between

Barton and Binghamton too