Shell Game - Banner Pilot

Stumbled up the alley over tins and wires and broken boxes

Left for us to trip across

Another bunch of rotten bad luck, you can’t win man, what’d I tell you?

Mucking hands can have a cost

First soaring then collision

Like my television, stories all end up the same

So we just drink deep, inhale, and cough

Move on before it wears off, are we smarter than this shell game?

I blinked

Up the street to Grand Avenue, end up at the water front

Where pollution’s made the sky go black

Never trust the books and never screw the ones who don’t deserve it

Slump let reflections play back

Watch soaring then collision

Like my television, stories all end up the same

So we just drink deep, inhale, and cough

Move on before it wears off, are we smarter than this shell game?

I’m not

It’s no use kid, I can’t stop bleeding

Take this old guitar, it’s all I’m leaving

It’s seen the Jersey pines, bright neon signs

And rode the Brighton line

I’ll tell you what you’re up against

It’s the toughest fucking town I’ve ever seen

And you’re going it alone, you’re an outsider so

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