Kevin Devine - Cotton Crush (Matter of Time Version) lyrics

And the bricks get laid And they get torn up And laid again But the bricks always get torn up again And your friends won't wait So don't believe that sh** When they say they'll wait Cause trust me; your friends should not wait for you Until you grow up Settle out at the bar Quit clouding your head, quit spiking your arms Till a girl walks along She's humming your song With your t-shirt on And that's when you're done Oh, that's when you're— That's when you're done That's when you're done That's when you're done That's when you're done, done There's a cotton crush In the southern states But back up here, man We've got so much thread and space To waste, waste, waste And there's a microphone Picking every word up And it shuts itself off When it's sure that it's heard enough Oh, heard enough Oh, I've heard enough The quiet can scrape All the calm from your bones But maybe it should Maybe we need to be hollowed To get up and grow And stop f**ing around To kick off our braces and start straightening out, yeah Let's sift through the static For a simpler sound We'll sift through the static For a simpler sound, yeah A simpler sound A simpler sound A simpler sound Than the sh** that's clouding our heads now Whoa, whoa I will remember that summer As the summer I was taking steroids