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Fire Escape (elsewhere version) Lyrics by Dan Mangan

Being Elsewhere Mix

2023

[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Oh, won't you come around?
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?
[Post-Chorus]
Oh, no, that's some murky water
Alright, we're in the trenches now
I don't know when the party's over
All I know is I'm getting out somehow
[Bridge]
Oh, what a fever dream
[Verse 2]
Meet me out by the fire escape
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?
[Chorus]
Oh, won't you come around?
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?
[Post-Chorus]
Oh, no, that's some murky water
Alright, we're in the trenches now
I don't know how the story ends
'Cause the pages just turn over then turn over again
[Bridge]
And redemption's always outta 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 wanna read the news maybe without losing my head
Oh, what a fever dream
[Outro]
So 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
Credits
Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan

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"Fire Escape (elsewhere version)" appears on "Being Elsewhere Mix" in 2023.

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