Maritime Blue

Lyrics

So, I got too close Too close to your astral clothes In one ear, you wore gold A staccato soldier, a truth or dare Your hair pinned back and your car all packed With your ethnic mal de mere I was in the back of the bar Taking fifths with Casper the Friendly Ghost I picked myself off of the floor Found a note you wrote from Mexico, oh Oh, oh, Maritime Blue (Hey, hey, Maritime Blue) Do you know how hot it gets? Oh, oh, Maritime Blue (Hey, hey, Maritime Blue) The mercury just makes me sweat If you move here to the sea Will you still visit me? I promise not to smoke If you say you won't joke about my knees You've gone back to Ohio Where the sky [?] it's indigo I got a job as a health hazard The hours were pretty good I seal these letters like some soldiery thing "Just another case of lead poisoning" The cops say as they pull away, yeah They kick me in the testimony and use me like a noun But don't look me up just to put me down Oh, Maritime Blue Are you coming back with your man? When you tell me about him Will I say "I understand" That it doesn't really matter if I Come or go? Three thousand miles is a long way to shout So, we popped a bottle, and then another But one swallow doesn't make it summer And I took that Sunday drive And tried to catch myself But I was plastered against the next state And I fell down and my speech was more slurred Than a [?] on a holiday That white house stood there like a bowling pin And that white house swayed in the Egyptian wind Oh, oh, Maritime Blue Did you think you could hide the moon? Oh, oh, Maritime Blue Don't tell me you don't feel it too Maybe you remind me too much of myself But, of course, you have your mental health So, let's take a drive and wind up in the coast Through graveyards and sticks and a murder of crows The slow-motion explosion, the steel mill's spark Became more like a train crashing into my heart Walking at night, all I wanted to do was to be [?] And to sleep with you Oh, Maritime Blue (Hey, Maritime Blue) Did you really think this place was haunted? (Hey, Maritime Blue) What did you expect when you fell down the steps And asked me what I wanted? Do you want a rugby man or you want me? The sound of the waves is just the calm of the sea Go hide those those sheets of sun-bleached red and [?] A patient's photo laid on top of the mantle So I got into town and I thought I was the same I don't know why you call yourself these names But with telephone pokers of fictions in billboard rows And lay in silence like tombstones But only between me and you Hey, hey, Maritime Blue (Hey, Maritime Blue) Are you coming back to sea? (Hey, Maritime Blue) And if you live out here Will you still visit me? Baby, I'll fight Do you want to find out? (Three thousand miles is a long way to shout) Three thousand miles is a long way to shout (Three thousand miles is a long way to shout) Yeah, three thousand miles is a long way to shout (Hey, three thousand miles is a long way to shout) Hey, three thousand miles is a long way to shout (Three thousand miles is a long way to shout) (Three thousand miles is a long way to shout) (Three thousand miles is a long way to shout) (Three thousand miles is a long way to shout)