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I was lost for a while in the mirrored hallway of a high-rise hotel

Umbrella drink in my hand, sitting there

Saw ten thousand me’s with cocaine teeth and the chattering mouths

Thought about home thought about death

Thought about moving south

Rodeo wind blew in now the candles out

And everyone’s scared

Call my broker sell everything

I want to be prepared

Heard the cavalry cry my girl for the night when

I entered her

Sounds so fake, always feels fake finishes and

then it feels worst

But any hallway has a camera

F C (hammer on D string 2nd fret)

Every hallway has a camera don’t you know?

They never let you open the window

F C (hammer on D string 2nd fret)

They never let you open the window

Smoke signals of thought

White ribbons of loss

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High above the tree line They cry out

I froze up for a second on the pyramid side of the Las Vegas strip

My brother hunched over in the bushes, getting sick

Security knew he took one look and through us out, Life’s not fair

Thought I'd die young with my true love

Thought I’d be a millionaire

In a mechanical world

A loud sound you never heard is always there

Radio’s trailing in the desert

Keep driving until you disappear

We made a gentleman’s pact

We’re not stopping no looking back,

Lace those shoes

Take the first step, take the next step

“That a boy!” It’s never too soon

All that you keep is the journey

All that you keep are the spaces in-between

It’s not the first start of the ending

All that you keep is the journey

Smoke rings around your thoughts

Blue ribbons at dawn

High above the tree line

We pass out

Smoke signals of thought

White ribbons of loss

High above the tree line

They cry out