Fire Escape (elsewhere version) [Official Lyric Video]

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Dan Mangan

Written by Dan Mangan & Drew Brown
Produced by Dan Mangan
Mixed by Jonathan Anderson
Performed by Dan Mangan & Marcel·lí Bayer

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LYRICS:
Meet me out by the fire escape
It’s been forty nights and forty days
And I’ve become uncertain in a cosmic way
I chewed my fingers to the bone today

Oh, won’t you come around and meet me by the fire escape?
Untie this tied tongue tie
What is it that I want to say? What is it that I really want to say?
What are the words I’ve been choking on, hoping someone will articulate?

Oh no, that’s so murky water
Alright, we’re in the trenches now
And I don’t know when the party’s over
All I know is I’m getting out somehow
Oh what a fever dream

Meet me out by the fire escape
We’ll join the procession down the alleyway
Oh, our freedom’s a joke and we’ve got debts to pay
How many waves until the levee breaks?

Oh, won’t you come around and meet me by the fire escape?
Untie these tied tongue ties
What is it that we want to say? What is it that we really want to say?
What are the truths we’ve been choking on, hoping someone will articulate?

Oh no, that’s so murky water
Alright, we’re in the trenches now
And I don’t know how the story ends
‘Cause the pages just turn over and then turn over again

And redemption’s always out of sight and just around the bend
And the outcome doesn’t match with what it is that I intend
Like a stack of books that grows and gathers dust beside the bed
Or the disconnect between what people do and what they’ve said
And I want to read the news maybe without losing my head
Oh, what a fever dream

Meet me out by the fire escape
It’s been forty nights and forty days
And I’ve become uncertain in a cosmic way
I chewed my fingers to the bone today

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