Place Names - Cymbals Eat Guitars

There it hovered then a flash

Instantly the sand is glass

If you don’t know just ask around

Dig your nails into my hand

Tattoo of a wedding band

I could hit the floor soon myself

For the last year you lived

You slept in your parents' bed

You whisper now from outside time

«The Milky Way’s a swirling drain

Gotta laugh the dread away

There’s no word for what I became»

Screen memories of weekends never spent

Out to Mystic and to Cape May

Still smoking in diners the whole way

And the bridge whips up behind us

The fifth mode of travel will make us see

That everyone’s alive in old light overflowing from the pool

Guess I guess the one’s the one I had to lose

Flash of white engulfs us as the film runs out

I’d say I’ll see you ‘round but man I have my doubts

I discard another friend

His skin’s that hepatitis tint

Eyes that got an acquisitive glint

One generation to the next

In the cell a secret knowledge

So oblivious so humane

We met on VJ Day

Tickertape

My memory is fading

Your girlfriend from back then

Where’s she now?

When the psychic said your name

My heart skipped

My life swelled

I lived in hope

Believe me baby I don’t know a lot but I know this is true

You could fuck around and I would forgive you

Why does every story end with cut to black?

Now I would do anything to get you back