Tangerine - Slaughter Beach, Dog

Call her my tangerine

Plastic stones glued to her jeans

Only says the word she means

Walking 8th Avenue

Taped up Payless soccer shoes

Hunts down smokes or Mountain Dew

Waits for something else to do

Deep breath, don’t let on the truth

It gets to you

Bar light and guitar

Repay the peace you’re due

One bright day you learned to live the other way

Your big debut

Call her my country star

Sleeps on Hawthorne Boulevard

Sport coat torn up at the yarn

Never did learn to swim

Lives on candy bars and gin

Phones old friends for «How ya been’s»

Finds a fool to take him in

Deep breath, don’t let on the truth

It gets to you

Bar light and guitar

Repay the peace you’re due

One bright day you learned to live the other way

They asked if I heard where they found you Tuesday night

I had the update coming via satellite

They blew the doors out

Tore the sheetrock off the studs

They were asking everyone if we knew what year it was

Deep breath, don’t let on the truth

It gets to you

Bar light and guitar

Repay the peace you’re due

Kid in a campground

You sit at home and stew

One bright day you learned to live the other way