Chicago Blues Lab — She Left at Midnight, But the Guitar Stayed Awake — Transcript

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1. 0:18Your love is a jagged tooth
2. 0:23in the mouth of this city
3. 0:28chewing on my spirit
4. 0:33without a drop of pity.
5. 0:38You're the carbon monoxide
6. 0:42leaking in my heart.
7. 0:47I'm breathing in the poison just to feel
8. 0:51anything
9. 0:53AT ALL.
10. 0:56MY HEART IS A CASUALTY
11. 1:01OF A war that never started.
12. 1:07A VACANT LOT
13. 1:09FOR THE GHOSTS of the broken-hearted.
14. 1:16You're the writing
15. 1:18on my final eviction notice.
16. 1:25The only flower blooming
17. 1:29in a field of neuroses.
18. 1:53YOUR VOICE IS A POWER LINE
19. 1:58SNAPPING IN THE GALE.
20. 2:02Electrocuted mercy.
21. 2:07Love for sale in stale.
22. 2:13I'M A STRAY CAT FEEDING
23. 2:17on the scraps of your life.
24. 2:22Purring like a fool
25. 2:25while I watch
26. 2:27the light die.
27. 2:31Loving you is like biting down
28. 2:35on A RUSTED COPPER WIRE.
29. 2:41WAITING FOR THE SPARK
30. 2:44to turn the water
31. 2:46into fire.
32. 2:50YOU'RE THE STATIC ON THE SCREEN,
33. 2:53the glitch in my brain,
34. 2:55THE ONLY PASSENGER LEFT ON A
35. 2:58ghost-driven train.
36. 3:05If I could TRADE MY SKELETON
37. 3:09FOR A BUCKET OF LEAD,
38. 3:14I'D BE HEAVY ENOUGH
39. 3:17TO forget everything you
40. 3:20said.
41. 3:24BUT THE WALLS ARE HOLLOW
42. 3:28AND THE BLOOD IS THIN.
43. 3:33I'm just a paper house
44. 3:37with the storm invited in.
45. 3:42KILL THE SPOTLIGHT.
46. 3:46LET THE DARKNESS GET FED.
47. 3:51I'm a walking funeral
48. 3:54for the words we left unsaid.
49. 4:01Just the smoke from the gun
50. 4:05and the salt in wound.
51. 4:11The whole world
52. 4:14is out
53. 4:16of tune.
54. 4:24Yeah,
55. 4:26out of tune.