Hairshirt Fracture Lyrics - Singles - Jim Carroll

It's a garbage truck hour, I'm sleeping in the shower 

I'm feeling like I'm waiting on a train 

By the sounds from my bed I think somebody's bled 

All over something someone's keeping clean 

I don't need anything, just make it bright 

Then turn it low 

You don't need more than me 

You could live right there beneath the stairs 

I've done it, I've said all I can, I've reached the end 

Now you must learn to bend 

Bend to the floor, taste the core 

You're not going nowhere 

Leave the money right there 

I feel the arrow sticking in my ear 

We owe so much we pawned 

Now watch the power come undone 

I'm standing on my head to watch the day just drift away 

This city always makes the same mistakes, asleep or awake 

I'm sick of waking up inside white balloons 

Inside of blue balloons 

New york air is sweet tonight 

There's no stars but that's all right 

I'm breathing 

I feel you through your fear 

Pull the arrow from my ear 

Tonight we'll take a different way home 

They say the fire burns but won't consume 

But it does consume 

You're slick, you shoplift 

What's left of my brain 

You haven't changed 

This city always makes the same mistakes, 

It's just like me 

It always breaks in two 

I'm sick of me for being sick of you 

We'll take a gypsy cab to heaven or hell 

Time will tell