Definition of insanity, she bought a bottle of tequila, he bought a bus ticket to Jersey
When he arrived it was getting kind of late, she said Malcolm I'm moving backwards, He said it's been that way since 2008
He said let me see your recent paintings, examine the steadiness of your lines, Looking sort of crooked, compared to your 2009s
Why do you always call me, if nothings gonna change, she paid for his bus ticket, He stayed a couple days
She said Malcolm I know it's hard for you to believe, but your company makes me stable more than you ever could believe
Keeps calling as the goings getting tough, doing the same thing over and over, Hopefully one day it's enough, it's enough
She's still at the same diner, he's still at the same bar, started a budding friendship met at a show at some garage
But he was only visiting, a friend who moved away, and she'd never leave New Jersey, even on judgment day
Her sister is still struggling, her parents drive her insane, her grandma is in hospice, her friends just stress and strain
But she just keeps on waiting, calls Malcolm at her worst, and he keeps on returning, takes some pills she has in her purse
Any old advice won't ever do, she's stuck and overwhelmed and he's too quiet to break through
But repeating bus trips and he has had enough, ten years of the same thing anyone else would just blow up, just blow up
This reckless argument shows your neglectful of, the fact that I'm the type to feel I don't deserve any love
And I'll tell you that it's my greatest fear, so its not too nice to remind me that I've got no romance out here
And everyone else with in this world with I get along, so why do I need to move a million miles to feel like I belong
And you and I just don't think alike, so I'm going to stop hitting my head against the wall every night, every night
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from Hectic in L.A.,
released October 14, 2022
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