Bob Nanna - Do You Want to Buy a Guitar? Lyrics

Do you want to buy a guitar?
I hardly use this one anymore
It just sang when I played at the store
Now its frets and its face are all beaten up and worn
I sold my Orange
Sold my Vox
Buried my lyrics deep in a box

I brought my records back to the store
Cause I barely listened to them anymore
They stayed unplayed beyond the basement door
With the rest of the mess that failed to keep me warm
I brought some cash back to the music room floor
And somehow now I feel
More poor

I used to go on tour all year
But I learned how to fear being far from here
And now nobody wants my body near
So i resolve to dissolve and slowly disappear
I know I had some low, low
Moments of no self-control

I used to feel pretty, cool and unique
I used to be The City but no one came to see
I used to make you come like crazy
Now I can't even get you to come anywhere near me
Someone send help
Cause I never have felt
This unfelt

My old flame is a singer in the dark
A walker on the stage, a dancer in the after-bar
Once upon a time, my one and only star
And we needed just to see you be who you are
We also needed that piece of paper, true
Then eventually
We needed two

So do you want to buy a guitar?
This one can only get me so far
They said playing this thing might heal my heart
But it laid in its case while I laid in the dark
Enjoy the silence now and learn
Some things will just not return
Enjoy the silence now and relax
Cause the melody may never be
Coming back