La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party lyrics

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Morning after snow storm, stand in the silence

Almost feel reborn all alone in the street

It’s a certain sort of stillness

when the quiet surrounds you

The only sound you shovel on concrete.

I remember those piles from the snow plows

Always seemed much bigger back when I was a kid.

Pushed all the snow to the end of the driveway

I was the only person up in the neighborhood

Morning after snowstorm,

I turned the ignition and I started my car morning after snowstorm

I scraped off my windshields with the edge of a credit card

I remember that drive into work.

Still can hear the voice coming over the radio

Listen to our experts give the best tips

For the next time you entertain dinner guests.

I thought of the day, in a tie in the kitchen

I sat and I watched you put make-up on.

Thought of the day in the basement when I played house

I felt ashamed that I stayed in my head in the same place for so long

Because I was afraid to change

But it’s not an excuse to stay!

Morning after snowstorm

I climbed up on the snowbank and I stared at the neighborhood

Morning after snowstorm

I think I finally understood what they meant when they said

There’s a calm after the storm.

Saw my grandpa at his workbench building grandma’s bookshelf

Watched a woman walk her trash out to the street.

Father alone of the highway

I heard the salt trucks and neighbors off to work

Saw my mother, saw how history loops around all of these moments,

And then I saw you!

In a dress there, with your eyes open wide to put make-up on

Thought of the day in the basement that I played house

And I felt ashamed

I’d ignored all the hands

that extended before and around me

Because I was afraid to change,

But that’s not an excuse to stay

It’s not an excuse!