Ida Downtown
Summer snapped in half
and half flippin' coffee creamers.
Twenty times, that's a good sign,
like a four-leaf clover.
Downtown
was filled with the sounds
of the full and the part time losers.
And when we stepped up to the bar,
you asked for a cigarette and
and the years just melted away right then
And I saw all the ways that we've changed
and the decisions that we made.
And I wasn't hurt or afraid.
Some skin holds night in.
Some gifts go unrequited.
I dreamed I was holding my breath.
Go down again
till I'm breathing in water and
breaking like the day,
getting in your way.
