State Champion - Keeping Time lyrics

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hy'd you go out east my boy?

Why'd you go out there?

Did your papa say that the time of day

Is only secondary to the price that you pay to know?

Oh no

And why'd you leave my back my boy?

I thought you was with me with me 'til the end

Why'd you leave my back my boy?

I thought that you was whisky and I was gin

Laid out on some bar together

Dusty eyed but getting better as each calendar goes

In the trash with the atlas and the maps

Of all the circles we drove

'Cause there ain't no one keeping time no more

But these assholes knocking on my door

Is that the cops or the devil or the goddamn Lord

Who knows?

I saw the federation flag

Doubled over like a dancer on her side

And when I called I called to tell you

That your favorite of the athletes had died

He offed his family and left nothing

But an orchid on the nightstand alive

Still you didn't pick me up but what the fuck

I figured why not try

'Cause there ain't a reason to be good my boy

Though I've seen others try in the past

There ain't a reason to be good my boy

Though I have seen others they've died for less

Horizontal on the prairie

Still as the snow and buried by the dark

While there's vampires on that altar

With their teeth inside the neck of my guitar

But there just ain't no one keeping time no more

So I got in my car and I drove

To the White House in my church clothes

Just to see if you were sleeping on the lawn

But all I found was freedom in a window

Blinking my name in neon (please keep it on)

I fell asleep myself you know

I was dreaming of the Tri-State and beyond

I had Lincoln looking over me saying

"Fuck it man I guess the golden days are gone"

'Cause there ain't no one keeping time no one

There ain't no one keeping time

The minister is knee-deep in wine

And who are you and I to go and argue with the Lord

After eighteen years of sleeping on his floor?

There ain't no one keeping time

Ain't nobody keeping mine

Ain't no one keeping time no more