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Oh my shattered youth regime
It’s fallen away from me it seems
And it's left me nowhere safe to lay my head
So come on darling take me home
We’ve got a lifetime to be alone
But only seconds left to get up off our feet

‘Cause you were beauty you were grace
A jackknife smile and a heart like a cave
That buries young men under freedom and under sin
I heard your name on the radio
We’d burn through the night and dance to it slow
And at dawn I’d lay awake and pray for dusk

In the glow of my headlights you were fearless babe
But that little look in your eyes gave a little more away

Dance little Juliet, it’s not over yet
The city’s sleeping
I can forget
My old rotten bones, have left me all alone
So put the nickel in
And burn my city down

You threw me out into the world
Among the stone your wings unfurled
And we were baptized by fire pits and highway lines
I still hear those songs at night
When the wind dies down and the city is quiet
And I wonder, can you still hear them too?

In the glow of my headlights you were fearless babe
But that little look in your eyes gave a little more away

And when you ran out of that diner
Holding onto your bleeding heart
They said you never made it very far
Your soul was burned out on the embers
Of a tattered teenage dream
And now I’m stuck here tearing at the seams
And there you are a thousand miles away
Kept hostage in a memory
Of punk rock shows and learning how to breathe
So won’t you stay a while longer
I’ve got so much more to say
But it doesn’t really matter now does it, anyway?

She said I can’t do this anymore, there must be so much more
But for the moment yeah
I can hear those songs