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Don't Talk About Leaving

from Nights Through Your Window by Charcoal Burners

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Don't Talk About Leaving

She wakes with the room in her face
It's getting smaller, it's become a trap
Puts on the blue dress that you bought her
And though she said she would, she never took it back

Some old movie posters
A cracked full length mirror
And pictures of the Virgin and the saints that she'd like to start meeting
You're my companion
Don't even talk about leaving

Tonight's her Gibraltar between
The state of longing, the state of Benzedrine
Clears off a space at her table
Takes out her dope tin to write a letter home

A suicide note or a valentine
Or some postcards of the places
That she'd like to try hiding from you in
You're my companion
Don't even talk about leaving

Put up a hell of a fight
She's down on Mainstreet
Beneath the traffic light
The truth is we're strangers all round
And that will never change, we never will be found

But maybe some morning you'll wake to find
That you've slept on the shoreline
Entwined in the arms of tomorrow
You're my companion
Keeping me safe with your breathing
Stay here beside me
Don't even talk about leaving

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from Nights Through Your Window, released November 1, 1999

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With your skeleton crew in the cockpit pornographic zombie flight attendants serving cyanide in first class and I'm someone in economy's sole baggage I'm the body they're bringing home and heads will roll in the bowling alleys of the town when the news gets out might as well just overshoot the airport set her down in ten million parts take as many of the rebels with us - Relate (Colours) ... more

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