You lit me up like a firework
I Stuck myself inside of a can
Like a man, I thought I was the mortar.
We were standing lakeside
Bathed in the red of CVS lights
I'm sure that someone's got a photo of us on that night
Under fireworks,
I stuck myself inside of a can
What a man, I thought I was a martyr
We were learning lip slides
Late into those August nights
Sweat and Jackie's on our brow
A sweetness not yet soured
By the orange glow
The things it had to know
The rent that we now owe
And an insatiable need to be
Wherever, whenever
You had me up on the wirework
I stuffed myself up with I can's
And the grandstand all chanted higher
Yeah, it all went slipping' from my grasp
Our matching caskets smashed
Star 51 'unfastened from the ragged flag
Under fireworks,
I stuck myself inside of a can
Like a man, I thought I was a martyr
Red letter days at stateside homes
I'll say it even if you won't-
When we're out having drinks
We're playing hide-and-go-seek with ourselves.
I'm Just trying to be Whatever it means
To be Freer.
Under an orange glow
Sweet autumn only knows Chicago
Like rents un-payable
And your fist through the wall
And the insatiable need to be.
Under the heavy glow
Of things it had to know
The rent that we now owe
And an insatiable need to be
Wherever, whenever.
An insatiable need to be.