Friendly Town

Brown leather leash in my hand
Four legs are pulling me
Into a pile of leaves
Grey squirrel up a tree

Black days ahead of us
She's waiting for the bus
She'll turn away my smile
I'm feeling lecherous

Razor burn and gasoline
Howard Stern and nicotine
Toll taker tell me this:
Have I become my father?

I pledge the cutting edge
Unto the tattooed faction
Ten years of frustration
Gave way to satisfaction

I never knew just what it meant to toe the line
Till the line led to a traffic jam where destiny went blind
Leave it behind

Leave your keys in the car
This is a friendly town

You waited for defeat
It never came around
I say luck you say fate
Either way we're found

There's nothing more between us
Just a lifetime and a lie
That a love can linger long enough to tie a knot in time

I'd like to place a call to where you place the blame
Undo your suffering before you got a name

What demons would I find
What there to consecrate
What love denied a dream to harden into hate

I know the fear you're running from
Another nightmare told me
When your father calls
I'll say you're not around to tell the story

Leave your keys in the car
This is a friendly town
You waited for defeat
It never came around

I say luck you say fate
Either way
Now did He throw it through a window, honey
Wrapped around a rock?
When you found yourself serenity now was it such a shock?

Fear of death by heart attack drives me to the gym
But I won't look for traffic as I back into the lot

These days it's not the things I do defining me
It's what I don't defining what I'm not
So if you think you've got the answer think again
There's a compromise before your eyes that you will see again

But there's a newfound feeling in a phone call from a friend
And you can't find the failure in a five out of a ten
When you find yourself in love
with all the tears that never mend

And you're looking back to see it
You were so much older then
You can't pretend

Leave your keys in the car
This is a friendly town
You waited for defeat
It never came around

I say luck you say fate
Either way we're found
So leave your keys in the car
This is a friendly town