Stuck Out Here - Quiet Bears lyrics

rate me

Is my "Yes We Can" shirt ironic enough to wear

Or does it mean I still believe in hope or change?

I'll get my friends now to ask my friends then

If that night's high still remains

The thrift district burned down in the centre of my town

Where all our burnouts convened

The project kids that trashed place still

Left living gutter dreams

At least they've got somewhere to go

At least they've got nowhere to be

While I'm still STUCK OUT HERE on High Street

When I'm too old not to leave

'Cause I'm no longer young enough to stay

And rest on what I know alone

But I'm too sad and scared to admit

That I'm losing all sense of home

And we are quiet bears

We are too goddamn comfortable

We are sleeping through the most of our winter

And you'll find us there

Laying dormant in the woods

I don't need to be understood

I just need you to listen

My own girlfriend can't even stand my songs

Or how I hold guitars on stage

We sell out of shitty t-shirts

Just so the band can get paid

But we never make a dollar

It always goes to the next expense

By the time we make back what we put in

There's money waiting to be spent

This is a well-oiled machine

I'm not claiming to be the first

To be holding onto something

And waiting for it to burst

But I see the gaps on main street

Where the arcade used to be

I see the same gaps in every goddamn town we pass through

And I struggle to believe

That we are quiet bears

Who are too goddamn comfortable

Who are sleeping through the most of our winter

'Cause when the earth shakes

We start prodding where we stand

I don't think I'll ever understand

But I'm ready to listen

We put candles in the bottoms of our bottles

And we danced in the beerlight

Somewhere a star fuzzed out and that was it

If this whole goddamn town burned down

Who'd give a shit?

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