Floorboards

from Whiskey & Wanderin by Swindlin Hearts

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FloorBoards

All of the whiskey is gone
I drank every last drop
to help write this song
and I see that the pages are torn
stained with cheap booze
like so many nights before
your eyes they say everything
they say am the I the last one
you'll ever have to sing
about, well I just dont know
like a drought to a river
Im losing my flow

And it runs me down
like im stuck on the rails
with a train coming round
and im cutting it way to close
ive spent hours, ive spent years
trying to escape this ghost

If I, I just could be
a little more spoken
maybe they wouldnt see
that Ive been swallowed whole
by a wave named uncertain
thats taking a hold
of the way that I react
when the truth that is spoken
actually lacks
the words inside my head
Ive been damned for not asking
now damned by my own pen

And it runs me down
like im stuck on the rails
with a train coming round
and im cutting it way to close
ive spent hours, ive spent years
trying to escape this ghost

Wide wide open roads
I bury my heard into the floorboards
im not the same when I get home
Please don't let me go
back to realization
to face the demons that I know
its like im living in a one stop light town
every corner another wrecking ball
waiting to knock me down
Im leaving and when I go
Im taking every god damned burden
and throwing it to the wolves

And it runs me down
like im stuck on the rails
with a train coming round
and im cutting it way to close
ive spent hours, ive spent years
trying to escape this ghost

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from Whiskey & Wanderin, released August 5, 2014

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