Country Sky Glow Lyrics - Kevin Devine

You carry the beach in your way too short hair 

That you shaved off last week 'cause you freaked and got scared 

That when it's longer, you remind me of her 

So you offered it up with what passed for authority 

My strict sort of challenge, she directed straight at me 

You said, "Forget her, I don't care what you two were" 

So it's a trick on your ego a two-step off tempo 

A solid gold bracelet under lights in a window 

In some shopping mall where I never go 

You play coy and count tiles, drag your toes through the water 

Raise your eyes, bite your lip and my mind's in the gutter 

You move at me and take my face in your hands 

I feel light bulbs explode in a fire cracked thunder 

Sense the slow seismic shift of the sprawling cloud cover 

But when we're finished, I feel awful again 

So it's the same sorry story, just the cast changes nightly 

And it skips like a record but it glows like a movie 

Or the country sky that I never see 

Shake in your voice makes me feel empty and ugly 

All scattered anger like a windstorm, howling violently 

And I wanna fade out and wake up somewhere else 

Where no face is familiar and I'm left by myself 

To keep plugging away on my own wasted time 

To eat badly and spend all my money and write 

To not feel too guilty, to be tired at night 

Since I'm not fixing things here, I'll leave them behind 

So you make your decision 'cause I'm through making mine 

Now I walk where the street swallows light like it's water 

I see the slant of your smirk on every kid at the corner 

But if you called, I'd never know what to say 

So I just hope you never will 'cause things are easier that way