First Air Of Autumn Lyrics - English Oceans - Drive By Truckers

First air of autumn up your nose 

Popcorn, heavy hairspray, nylon pantyhose 

Please stand and bow your heads and pray you don't get old 

The nurture and the admonition of your kind 

The rules of only strong survive 

Cross shaped swimming pools, 

Down in the blood and lifted up 

Forever seeking favor from the light 

Schoolhouse hallway like a prairie highway sprawls 

The drop off spins away the sun 

The getting there just proves it's nothing but a ball 

Pray the horizon never comes 

The hearts of the daughters of the men, 

Won by the softness of the sons of women's hands 

To leave it up to love would leave it left to chance 

Memory only shows the promise beauty broke 

Of beauty ageless in it's time 

Light attracts the same, you glance away and the glory fades 

And being on your arm has lost it's shine 

School house hallway like a prairie highway sprawls 

The drop off spins away the sun 

Like eyes that once could cut through 

Candle power on autumn nights 

First air of autumn leaves me numb