Songs About Rivers - Stress Scars Lyrics

Every corner fire station
With heroes on the walls
A disconnect from your existence
Everything else is small
Every avenue's new angle
A new life in a new line
But I'm still taking East 17th Street
Every single time
I've got stress scars
Growing under my eyes
It costs so much money
To be alive
There's a long line growing
Under these lights
I'm a loan beam singing
Into the night
Over age and overqualified
When you don't know a soul
Spend most mornings walking around
Stepping aside to feel useful
Shouting distance from
The center of the world
Every sound I make feels desperate
And affirmed
I've got stress scars
Growing under my eyes
It costs so much money
To be alive
There's a long line growing
Under these lights
I'm a loan beam singing
Into the night
The most outside that I could get
Still blocked all the rain
A leaf-lit canopy Stuyvesant Park
We worry sometimes so much
It feels like all we do
But in the end
It just washes away
I've got stress scars
Growing under my eyes
It costs so much money
To be alive
There's a long line growing
Under these lights
I'm a loan beam singing
Into the night