The Living And The Dead

Chose an easy rhyme to fill these moments of your time
 I tried to keep between the line, looking forward and behind
 I studied highway archeology, poetry and rhythm
 As I'm tapping in the forniac this moment of expression
 It's evolving and dissolving, connecting and exploding,
 Building up and then eroding
 It's the end and I keep rolling
 I played a skinny, indie white boy blues
 in a scuffed up military style shoes
 I'm a convenient store connoisseur
 On a broken shoestring budget tour
 Flap or float, just barley float
 Sing it fast and now get them all
 Get no one knows success
 It's soon forgotten, put to rest
 We crossed this country a million times
 Trillion roads, gazillion signs
 A re-enactment is this life
 These words are just a bite from all those heroes that I heard
 Just paraphrasing words
 To leave behind a song,
 A re-enactment of a song
 Hey I'm in love with this living and the dead
 Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
 Living and the dead
 I'm in love with a lover whose dead
 I've seen some highs and lows
 I've seen those Akrons and Toledos
 And you know we've done some shows
 Not a single person goes
 Driven fourteen hours
 Just to play into the sound guys
 He's reading his book
 We've got to suck it up and try
 Some bartender's playing on that mega touch machine
 Hearing on fingernails and tapping on that screen
 And it's a cold bleak night as the poles bleeding light
 Detroit's abandoned no casinos in my sight
 Got to kill my time
 I'm a ghost out on these streets
 I'll be sleeping in my truck tonight
 And not sleeping in your ice cold sheets
 Got a scrambled heart, it's a little over cooked
 Got a novel full of wishes missing from your book
 There's no insurance in this life
 No protection from the night
 Too many rules and no direction
 You walk under a knife
 It's just this temporality, creating fleeting moments
 If your lacking in permanent
 You better make your moment potent ah ugh
 Hey I'm in love with this living and the dead
 Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
 Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
 Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
 Living and the dead
 I'm in love with the living and the dead
 Living and the dead
 I'm in love with a lover whose dead