Postal Service
Nov. 18th, 2005 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leftyjewI just listened to The District Sleeps Alone Tonight for like the 100th time and I just realized that it might be about addiction, suicide and rehab and not about generic urban angst. Am I totally wrong? Or am I just oblivious to never have realized it before?
Decide for yourself:
Smeared black ink. Your palms are sweating and I'm barely listening...to last demands. I'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's burried beneath. (Where I am. Where I am.) I'll wear my badge, a vinyl sticker with big block letters adhear onto my chest- Tells your new friends I am a visitor here. I am not permanent. And the only thing keeping me dry. You seems so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex. A stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting. I am finally seeing, well I was the one worth leaving. Well I was the one worth leaving. DC sleeps alone tonight..... The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights and send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening. And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving....
Smeared black ink your palms are sweating and I'm barely listening...to last demands.
You OD'ed again and I'm still here (at least in body) holding you hand waiting for the ambulance.
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's burried beneath.
You got me into your world, but death is not somewhere I want to go with you.
Wear my badge, a vinyl sticker with big block letters adhear onto my chest- Tells your new friends I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.
Now that you're in the clinic, I'm visiting you every so often, but you know, this isn't me anymore.
And the only thing keeping me dry.
Yup, I'm sober now.
It seems so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex. A stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting.
Yeah, it was all fun, but damn, you're a good lesson to learn from. I'm not gonna end up here. Or dead.
I am finally seeing, well I was the one worth leaving. Well I was the one worth leaving.
And thank G-d, cuz I don't want to be a crackhead.
DC sleeps alone tonight.
But...it's lonely without you, baby.
The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights and send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening. And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving....
Lonely, but it's better for me.
Decide for yourself:
Smeared black ink. Your palms are sweating and I'm barely listening...to last demands. I'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's burried beneath. (Where I am. Where I am.) I'll wear my badge, a vinyl sticker with big block letters adhear onto my chest- Tells your new friends I am a visitor here. I am not permanent. And the only thing keeping me dry. You seems so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex. A stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting. I am finally seeing, well I was the one worth leaving. Well I was the one worth leaving. DC sleeps alone tonight..... The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights and send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening. And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving....
Smeared black ink your palms are sweating and I'm barely listening...to last demands.
You OD'ed again and I'm still here (at least in body) holding you hand waiting for the ambulance.
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's burried beneath.
You got me into your world, but death is not somewhere I want to go with you.
Wear my badge, a vinyl sticker with big block letters adhear onto my chest- Tells your new friends I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.
Now that you're in the clinic, I'm visiting you every so often, but you know, this isn't me anymore.
And the only thing keeping me dry.
Yup, I'm sober now.
It seems so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex. A stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting.
Yeah, it was all fun, but damn, you're a good lesson to learn from. I'm not gonna end up here. Or dead.
I am finally seeing, well I was the one worth leaving. Well I was the one worth leaving.
And thank G-d, cuz I don't want to be a crackhead.
DC sleeps alone tonight.
But...it's lonely without you, baby.
The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights and send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening. And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving....
Lonely, but it's better for me.
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Date: 2005-11-18 05:10 pm (UTC)meaning of the song
Date: 2005-12-16 06:59 pm (UTC)Or it's about Roosevelt Island in NY. Or I just think about Roosevelt Island when I hear the song because there's a strange apartment complex there. Your choice.
-AM