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Hangin' with the Living

from Betrayer by The On Fires

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about

A song about losing your temper and, when the dust settles, not believing what you did. Marty writes about having to deal with the situation and the 'ghosts' that are left behind.

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Red light across a paste expression
Cold steel blood in my veins
Way down in the soil below us
There a tale at the shovel's end

Stay now sleep now God don't give me away
I'll be swingin' by the end of a rope

Didn't want to mince words with you honey
So I guess it ends up like this
Cuffed hands shiny back seat leather
Uniform cops & radio hiss

And you smiling back at me
Through the distance in your whitest dress

Every sound that I ever I hear
Will remind me of you
Hangin' with the living

Didn't want to lie to you honey
Now I long that I'd never been born
Temper spread to my hands at the wrong time
I'm a dead man walking alone

Stay now sleep now God don't give me away
I'll be swingin' by the end of a rope
With you smiling back at me
Through the distance in your whitest dress

Every sound that I ever I hear
Will remind me of you
Hangin' with the living

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from Betrayer, released March 1, 2010

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