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Written by Wyatt McKenzie

Produced by Ronald Corso

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Denver

Your girlfriend’s got a big mouth
She moans and complains
The three of us were smoking cigarettes out by the planetarium
I was an asteroid and she was the world
And you were like the moon orbiting around her
As I blew a plume of smoke in the shape of a road
And dreamed of blowing town for good

I’ve been coughing up Technicolor phlegm,
My throat’s burning, and my empty cigarette packs take up the lonely space
On me bed, next to me where your girlfriend used to sleep
Her cheap perfume still lingers on my sheets
As I fold my trembling hands and I beg God for help
And in his laziness he replies “When you help yourself”

Still I get to feeling pretty nauseas
When I see you around the bend
She tells you how to dress, how to act around her friends
You put your hands in her pockets and your tongue in her mouth
You even try on her panties when she gets drunk and passes out
I’m not feeling suicidal but I’m feeling pretty low
I’ll get drunk and hop a train to Denver, Colorado

The pastor at my church said I could run across the map
But eventually I’d see my own reflection and go back
To feeling the same old resentments and I’d start my decline
He said my insides are burning and outside everything’s just fine
But I don’t care what he said; these sky scrapers make me bleed
And there’s a girl out in Denver I really want to see

So I’ll pack up what I need and I’ll leave behind the rest
My nine to five job and all these warrants for my arrest
I won’t say goodbye to her and I won’t say goodbye to you
I give it three months before she finds somebody new
I won’t miss this town a bit that’s something I just know
And I’m going to find a home in Denver, Colorado

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from Bedroom Music, released May 4, 2010
Wyatt McKenzie- vocal, guitars, bass, drums
Ronald Corso- backing vocal

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