Pittsburgh Lyrics - Blood Of Man - Mason Jennings

My mom'd give me twenty and say stay out till dawn 

When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone 

I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard 

And roll my own tops and think two kind of a thoughts 

Are we high enough to clear these trees? 

I don't know 

That was the summer dave's girlfriend OD'ed 

She died in the bathroom at a party down the street 

I went to see him the next night, he had a new tattoo 

He was watching home movies of her 

His face was wet, he looked so confused 

They had a funeral for her 

The preacher said she was with the Lord 

There were lots of pictures of her 

Taped to a poster board 

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Are we high enough to clear these trees? 

I don't know 

Are we high enough to clear this place? 

I don't know 

Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light 

High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right 

But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand 

When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down 

I wound up that fall in a hospital 

On the suicide wing with a lot of people thinkin' one thing 

They had a sign on the wall that said no touching at all 

There were screams in the dark, nurses running down the hall 

On the night that I got there they showered me and searched me hard 

Then they took me to my little room overlooking a graveyard 

When I opened my eyes I was strapped to the bed 

There was a needle in my arm, part of me was gone 

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Then they took us outside in our slippers and gowns 

To play basketball on the blacktop, the ball just bounced till it stopped 

Are we high enough to clear these trees? 

I don't know 

Are we high enough to clear this place? 

I don't know 

Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light 

High school halls and shopping malls never did me right 

But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand 

When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down 

When the leaves were wet behind the old duplex 

We used to run at night naked through the trees 

And you would lean back against me and I would try to stay soft 

We'd listen to the engines as the planes took off