my basset hound (NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2022) Lyrics

Please don't ask where I've been

I only allow myself so much shame

These days, these days

'Cause when I dig up what I've done

Oh my God I don't know where this went wrong

But it stays, it stays

And you won't escape your blues

Though your whole life you've tried to

Hide the haunted house

As a basset hound at your feet

I will never let it reach you

So I'll be gone, I'll be gone

Like the record stores and the towns that they've come from

The old age, the old age

Lick your wounds, the ghosts lights on

The dead will sing backstage where they belong

Nothing's wrong, Nothing's wrong

And you won't escape your blues

And my whole life I've tried to

Hide the haunted house

As a basset hound at my feet

I will never let it reach

I will never let it reach you