Noose Dressed Like A Necklace Lyrics - Kevin Devine

A cadillac drives down my street 

A bead of sweat pourin slow down a palm line. 

I see a bumper sticker 

it's a bearded man with a wanted sign. 

A myth we've made to scare out fears away 

A slogan that we slap on all our misdirected hate 

A muddy symbol meant to mitigate our pain 

But it's really just a desert corpse 

We've painted on the wall out in some cave. 

Anyway... 

I don't know where he's gonna park that thing. 

My neighborhood drunk's on-line at the deli 

with his shaky hands and his swollen face he waits for his coffee. 

He blacks out curbside every night 

and every day crawls back towards wall street. 

So I don't see it like it's us and them 

I just see everybody working for that same eternal weekend 

Droning on and on and on and never doing what we wanted 

Heavy legs two steps behind some forever dangling carrot. 

and I'm tired of this 

So who's to say that we can't just fucking change it? 

and I know it seems dramatic 

but I treat it like a crisis 

The office to the coffin 

All our time and talent wasted 

and that weight against your throat 

is that a noose dressed like a necklace? 

From here I couldn't really tell the difference 

either way I say let's not take any chances 

cause I don't know where he's gonna park that thing 

Well I don't know where he's gonna park that thing 

No I don't know where he's gonna park that thing