Boy with a Butterfly Knife ft. Night Falls Lyrics

The doctors watched us watch you die

Then went home to their kids

The undertaker smoked a cigarette

While we tossed dirt on the lid

I close my eyes and try hard

To remember

The feeling when I was little

And you'd toss me in the water

Raindrops dissolving

On the glass of the skylight

Glinting memory

Of a boy with a butterfly knife

Glossy magazines

The smell of ink and CK-1

Last song of the countdown

On the tip of the DJ's tongue

State park to the quick mart

Backlit buttons pop machine

Root beer from a silver can

The smell of gasoline

Something cooking on the grill

Grown-ups we could trust

Listen, it's a whippoorwill

Calling through the dusk

Dreams of Florida

That pristine apartment

Hush of central air-co

And plush wall to wall carpet

Moonlight through Venetian blinds

Striped shadows cut the corner

Cicadas orchestrated

On grandpa's tape recorder

Nostalgia tastes metallic

Copper oxidized by time

Faded green patina on the things

That used to shine

Love is in the details

And everybody knows

Can't stop the river

From going where it goes

Stand by me

Taped off TV

Is how I see your fifties

Buzz cuts and jeans with cuffs

Switchblade toothpick bullies

Lollipop on the radio

Cherry flavored Pez

Offscreen unhappy parents

Caught up in their own mess

Dandelion war paint

Pine cone grenades

Legacies of violence

Naturalized from the arcade

The stillness of the body

After the breathing stopped

The indifference of gravity

Heartless ticking of the clock

Thinking it was empty

I walked into the room

Only to realize

That the room was full of you

Is this the afterlife?

An archeology of stuff

Ruins and reminders

That will never be enough

Chlorine and Coca-Cola

Bare feet on warm cement

Humidity was good to me

Be good to me again

Love is in the details

And everybody knows

Can't stop the river

From going where it goes

I close my eyes and try hard

To remember

The feeling when I was little

And you'd toss me in the water