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Friends Back East

Jawbreaker
(album: Etc.)

Welcome to your new home.
Here´s your bed. You´ll sleep alone.
Getting everything you wanted.
Getting everything you wanted and some.
Here´s the kitchen. Cook alone.
Look at the water boil.
At the table sit and stare.
Soup with bread with so much care for ___.

All my friends back east keep asking,
"What have you done with your life?"
Just a little too strung out to lie.
Suddenly it seems so clear.
Rejecting what you can´t have.
Light a candle, smoke and pray

all good sins will find you one day.
Now another month is gone.
Soon it will be a year.
Go to bed and say out loud,
"Is it over where it´s all gone wrong?"

All my friends back east keep asking,
"What have you done with your life?"
Just a little too strung out to lie.

My ambition
keeps getting in the way.
When I found my voice
there´s nothing left to say.
Inhibition
keeps me behind this door.
My life´s a running joke.
What am I? What am I running for?