Cotton Crush Lyrics - Kevin Devine

The bricks get laid and they get torn up 

And laid again but the bricks always get torn up again 

Your friends won't wait so don't believe that shit 

When they say they'll wait 

Trust me, your friends will not wait for you 

Then you'll be stoned in some park 

Just nodding your head and pinching your arms 

When a girl walks along 

She's humming your song with your T-shirt on 

That's when you're done, oh, that's when you're don 

There's a cotton crush down in the southern states 

But back up here, man, we've got so much thread and space 

To waste, waste, waste 

There's a microphone picking every word up 

And it shuts itself off when it's sure that's its heard enough 

The quiet can scrape all the calm from your bones 

But maybe it should, maybe we need to be hollowed 

To get up and grow and stop fucking around 

To kick off our braces and start straightening out 

Let's sift through the static to find a simpler sound 

Let's sift through the static to find a simpler sound 

Simpler sound than the shit that's clouding our heads now