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When the Lights Go Down

from Hamartia by The Real Whitaker Todd

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a song about feeling restless.

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They said I could be anything and placed that cap onto my head and diploma into my hand and just said “goodbye and good luck!” but it turns out I became nothing and goddamn if I’m not good at it. But I’ve been counting days until a spectral mark on the calendar and I’m like “damn.” All of my friends seem to have some well-written plan but I seem to have misplaced my pen and my yellowing notebook. And I wait for Nick to come downstairs and I sit there and ask myself “Can you get paid for being a piece of shit without running for office?” and I say “oh, won’t you carry me home? I’m too tired to stand for much longer.” Bring me back to my bed, tuck me in, kiss my head. Tell me everything is gonna be just fine. They said we could be anything and told us we could change the world but I just want to change the hours of sleep I’ve been getting at night cuz I’m getting tired of seeing all these ghosts in the road lit by streetlamps and I take my pills and hit the gas and mow them all down on the road. They die again, but not for long. But I’m planning on laying waste to this suburban street I call home; I’m plotting a revolution from the comfort of Bobby’s apartment where I have to sleep on the floor ‘cause they’ve got no furniture yet where not being a poet means nothing to me but that’s still quite a lot and I slur… When the lights go down and we are all alone and the ghosts come out to play and it is time to leave

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from Hamartia, released February 8, 2014

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