Buenos Aires Beach Lyrics - Wagonwheel Blues - The War On Drugs

My barricades feel open now 

So I leave behind the bridge 

With a flag with a western wave and a simple stitch to fix 

I'll hold myself together now as you take me through the ditch 

Where the sky crumbled on the floors 

You'll sweep me off of my back 

You'll save me from the rumble you spoke of before 

And the one who saved you 

Ain't the one who you were banking on 

When your highs were cutting through my lows 

Enter through the side door please 

I know you wish to speak with me 

Of old neglected promises 

Of stolen souvenirs 

How you could hear the ocean 

But you could not see the breeze 

When the sky was setting on a Buenos Aires beach 

And the sun was shining on the one I wish to see 

And the fates are shifting under land 

You're beating on the floors 

You're sleeping on the same ones you've been sweeping on 

You're the one that saved me 

And the one that I was banking on 

When your highs were cutting through my lows 

So hold me up against the tree 

You used to measure me in feet 

And set your sights to green 

And all the cross-town boys and on 

They show up with the sea shells in their eyes 

But you know what they want 

By the glow of your skin 

And you can overdress for him 

But it will soon grow old 

And this winter it came to pass 

So much slower than the last 

And now there's nothing left to grasp 

In our hands and nothing left to catch 

So they'll speak of the past 

In the future perfect tense 

Of places we will go 

Before we grow old