Long Way Home

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Always wait til I’m too damn tired
Then I try to set the night on fire
Only wind up burning myself instead
And mama said don’t play with matches
Don’t touch the pan before the batch has cooled down
But it only makes me wanna do it more

Everytime I try to carve my own path
It winds up the same just another Vietnam bloodbath

And I don’t wanna take the long way home
I don’t wanna take the long way home
I don’t wanna take the long way home
Anymore, anymore

I build my house out of straw and cards
And complain when I wake up in the yard
I’m getting used to the ground by now but it’s still not that comfortable
There’s pain that comes and goes with the tide
And there’s pain that made of my own design
Little by little by I’m starting to tell the difference

It’s a game of madness
You get so numb you even start to miss the sadness

And I don’t wanna take the long way home
I don’t wanna take the long way home
I don’t wanna take the long way home
Anymore, anymore

The bartender pours the drink on Saturday
The priest pours another the very next day
I don’t really know what I’m trying to say but
The more I drink the more I sink
And the hours pass into days and weeks
And God just listen to me speak
You know I’m starting to think
There’s gotta be some better way
Besides the backstreets and the alleyways
Don’t you think babe?

And I don’t wanna take the long way home
I don’t wanna take the long way home
I don’t wanna take the long way home
Anymore, anymore

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from LIP, released November 17, 2017

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Formed in May, 2016 by Coleman Meola, Connor Tester, Jerome Vivino, and Luke Bellet, Lip, is a contemporary rock band based out of Austin, TX.

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