Depreston

Album: Sometimes I Just Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
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  • You said we should look out further
    I guess it wouldn't hurt us
    We don't have to be around all these coffee shops

    Now we've got that percolator
    Never made a latte greater
    I'm saving 23 dollars a week

    We drive to a house in Preston
    We see police arresting
    A man with his hand in a bag

    Hows that for first impressions
    This place seems depressing
    It's a Californian bungalow in a cul-de-sac

    It's got a lovely garden
    A garage for two cars to park in
    Or a lot of room for storage if you've just got one

    And it's going pretty cheap you say
    Well it's a deceased estate
    Aren't the pressed metal ceilings great?

    Then I see the handrail in the shower
    A collection of those canisters for coffee tea and flour
    And a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam

    And I can't think of floorboards anymore
    Whether the front room faces south or north
    And I wonder what she bought it for

    If you've got a
    Spare half a million

    You could knock it down
    And start rebuilding

    If you've got a
    Spare half a million

    You could knock it down
    And start rebuilding

    If you've got a
    Spare half a million

    You could knock it down
    And start rebuilding

    If you've got a
    Spare half a million

    You could knock it down
    And start rebuilding Writer/s: Courtney Barnett
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Third Side Music Inc.
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