35mm (Henry Thoreau)

I remember Caribou Coffee Sunday mornings

And I forget the dollar signs but i know i was cheap

I spent those days bitter as the drinks that they were pouring

There, a brewing mind was left to steep

I remember losing it between the fiction bookshelves

The crippling realization that I did it to myself

If it helped, I'd crack open the page to Kraken or the elves

So my own story got dusty on a shelf

See the way these things go, it’s about who you know

Come on down see the show, meet me in the front row

We can bask in the glow of a cheap radio

And I’ll recite the best quotes of Henry Thoreau

Above and below us, the heavens unfold

What is the meaning of the story you told

When everything sacred was everything sold

Letting go was the only hand i had to hold

When does a flicker of a flame start a fire

I'm still burning out here, full of desire;

A bridge to the stars because I wanna go higher

See the way these things go, it’s about who you know

Come on down see the show, meet me in the front row

We can bask in the glow of a cheap radio

And I’ll recite the best quotes of Henry Thoreau

I've been keeping up and kicking of the rust

And I can't forget how it feels to trust,

But I'm not sure I'm ready yet

To be another product of the tape cassette collector's debt

That echo-chamber exodus could free me from potential threat

In the aftermath, I'm left to reckon with your quick release

I've been at the counter for an antidote for this disease

I found a note you wrote ten years ago that made my body freeze.

Stayed up all night singing this song and heard your harmonies

See the way these things went was about what I spent

On everything else but time with a friend

I really know how to box myself in,

Break down my walls, or at least make a dent