Can't Fix It

from Why Bother? by Super Depressive

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She's either cold as Milwaukee
With ice in her stare,
Or with a head full of headlines,
And her hands in the air.
I try and play it off gently,
Like I really don't care.
But the truth is I give it some thought.

But when the nail hits the hammer,
And the show has begun,
I can't split the difference
So I call her the one.
There's a Thunder Moon rising,
And a slow setting sun.
But there's a trap in between and I'm caught.

So, here I am,
Locked up and loaded by late afternoon,
With my heart in my vocal chords singing the blues.
They don't make me feel like I feel next to you.
It's got me suiting up and cuffing my sleeves.
I can't fix it, so I'm fixin' to leave.

This is all new to me,
But it starts to get old
To keep polishing pennies
And keep calling 'em gold.
It's either straight in the fire
Or stuck out in the cold.
I keep drawing these lines in the sand.

I can't say it's a blessing,
But can't call it a curse.
You've got your flag up and flying,
But they beat you here first.
It might get a bit better,
And I know it gets worse.
Oh, I've got to get out while I can.

'Cause here I am
Locked up and loaded by late afternoon,
With my heart in my vocal chords singing the blues.
They don't make me feel like I feel next to you.
It's got me suiting up and cuffing my sleeves,
And I'm crossing the state line with an eighth of a tank
And a migraine and twenty-six bucks in the bank.
Like a sailor on the shoreline whose ship up and sank,
There ain't a back up plan I can conceive.
I can't fix it, so I'm fixin' to leave.
I can't fix it, so I'm fixin' to leave.

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from Why Bother?, released August 25, 2015
Written by David W. Robinson in October of 2014.

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