The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Album: Give Up (2003)
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  • Smeared black ink

    Your palms are sweaty.
    I'm barely listening
    To last demands.

    I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
    What's buried underneath.

    (Where I am)
    (Where I am)

    I wear my badge.
    A vinyl sticker with big block letters
    Adhering to my chest.


    It tells your new friends,
    "I am a visitor here."
    "I am not permanent."

    The only thing
    Keeping me dry is

    It seems so out of context
    In this gaudy apartment complex.
    A stranger with your door key
    Explaining that "I'm just visiting".

    I am finally seeing
    That I was the one worth leaving.
    I was the one worth leaving.

    DC sleeps alone tonight.

    It seems so out of context
    In the gaudy apartment complex.
    A stranger with your door key
    Explaining that "I'm just visiting".

    I am finally seeing
    That I was the one worth leaving.
    I was the one worth leaving.

    The district sleeps alone tonight
    After the bars turn out their lights
    And send the autos swerving
    Into the loneliest evening.

    I am finally seeing
    That I was the one worth leaving.
    I was the one worth leaving.
    I was the one worth leaving.
    I was the one worth leaving. Writer/s: Benjamin D Gibbard, James Scott Tamborello
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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