Lyrics
The new drywall in your old room smells like joint compound and rain.
I keep the ringer on the Kyocera up, just rehearsing the pain.
Got a go-bag packed with your size shirt, full of Marlboros and loose change,
Been practicing the drive to the county line on the Wheeling interchange.
[Chorus]
And I've got the eulogy memorized
For a life you're still running through.
Living with the ghost of a compromise
That I pray you'll never have to choose.
[Verse 2]
Saw you last Tuesday, leaning on the hood of your rusting Dodge.
You said, "Just need a hundred 'til Friday, man, I swear to God."
The taste of iron from the kitchen tap filled my mouth up with the gray,
Another coal seam of a promise I watched wash away.
[Bridge]
There's a version of this house with a black wreath on the door.
And I live there half the time, just to be sure.
[Chorus]
'Cause I've got the eulogy memorized
For a life you're still running through.
Living with the ghost of a compromise
That I pray you'll never have to choose.
[Outro]
The eulogy memorized,
sustained on an unresolved chord.
About Lane Stayton
As the oldest of six in a West Virginia factory town, Lane Stayton had to parent his siblings while still a child himself. The resentment and fierce loyalty of that stolen youth fuels his music—a heavy, sludgy grunge built on down-tuned guitars and his own pained, double-tracked vocal harmonies. His songs, written on a beat-up acoustic in a small apartment overlooking the Ohio River, are raw…
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