New Orleans - Mal Blum

I know you can spend your whole life

Waiting for a sign

Neon flashing gold lights

And it’s dark enough outside

But i’m sitting on the side street

Doing nothing with my time

While the punk kids in the quarter

Made a thousand bucks tonight

But that’s not me

Before i leave

Or move my feet

I’m gonna freeze

I’m gonna freeze

She says people can be different

But I don’t miss my home

Still, every winter here the pipes burst

Because they’re not used to being cold

And i live alone instead now

And i don’t mind it like i did

If the house is haunted anyway

What’s another empty bed?

But as for me

Before i leave

Or move my feet

I’m gonna freeze

I’m gonna freeze

New orleans in the winter

Chicago in the fall

Things that are and are not

That we leave comfortably unsolved

I should and i should not go

I can and cannot call

Though I guess that doing nothing

Is doing something after all

But I could still leave

I could still leave

I could still leave