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This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us

by Jonas & Warren

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1.
New Tenants 04:00
I've been feeling lately like the house at the end of the street Where newspapers have been collecting for the past seven weeks Where the grass ain't mowed and the flowers in the garden have died And everyone that passes by thinks "what the hell has happened inside?" Then you moved in and the sun burned its whole through the clouds It sang us its heroic anthem, so compelled by its sound I took your hand in the presence of this bright new life And what remained inside me screamed that everything is gonna be fine So giddy up
2.
Captain of a lifeboat Wearer of a ski coat in the middle of the summertime Communion in the alleyways Drive north up the interstate To appeal to the magistrate looking for a new life But I'm a lone gun I'm a lonely one I'm alive with no time to be alone I wanna be alive in my solitary home It's not a sin to be asking for a little bit of peace of mind It's not a choice to be craving to feel a little bit less confined There's a man in my memory This man seems imaginary Face built disproportionately, looking hypnotized Scrutinize for safety His eyes scatter aimlessly And the man in my memory begs for my attention He's got blue eyes I've got blue eyes He's got a hungry mouth And an even hungrier mind I'm wide-eyes, vaguely staring at the vast unknown I wanna be alive, I wanna reinvent my home I'll head out to the country, down to Nashville, Tennessee I'll take a trip to the east coast, and watch the seasons come and turn the leaves
3.
Do you hear our mother cry? She knows she can't kiss her baby goodnight She thinks about her last goodbye, and what she failed to say Well your boots are still by the stove And your footprints are still in the snow And it makes it much harder to believe Do you hear our childhood calls Echo in this cottage's walls? The sound of laughter rise and fall in the summertime Those memories refuse to go And your footprints are still in the snow And it makes it much harder to believe Do you hear the birds outside Usher in the morning light Usher out another life into the universe? I listen to their singing grow And your footprints are still in the snow And it makes it much harder to believe
4.
Mountains, oceans, palm trees All the sort of stuff you see in the movies And I'm not really sure that I like it The hands that I shake, the coffee, the climate So I drive through California's highways Dreaming of the beauty of its earlier days It might be trapped in a Steinbeck novel As if they had the dinosaur and we had the fossil Railroads, gold rushes, Monroe Exchanging time in traffic for the ribbons and bows So I'm holding out for something better To a prettier place with uglier weather To a place where the trees stand taller Where the front yards aren't gasping for water Where the mornings don't demand ibuprofen A new promised land where the roads aren't golden
5.
On my way home to California On my way home to Tennessee Won't tell you the things that I'm afraid of But I'll tell you 'bout the thing that's haunting me In this world you've got nothing In this world you've got pain But when something turns to nothing 'Least you've something left to gain So I'm back on my way to California Didn't last too long in Tennessee Time did tell I missed dear California But I didn't miss you standing here by me Back on my way to California Didn't last too long in Tennessee Time did tell I missed dear California But I didn't miss you standing here by me

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released April 7, 2017

Produced by: Josh Warren and Pete Jonas
Written by: Josh Warren and Pete Jonas

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