High Rise Serenade

from Killing The Old Ways by Pete Mancini

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The names and the faces
You always got em wrong
When you lived above the levee
From that old familiar song
Playing your guitar
On your balcony
Floating on the avenue
careless and free

You always used to say
It's the world versus me
She tried her best to love you
But you were still too young to see
You played a phony country singer
Who's name you can't recall
There was laughter in the springtime
And pride before a fall

If I could be there tonight
I'd write a different song
But I guess I'll send this letter
And try to move along
I'm haunted by the pain I caused
In our high rise days
I'm begging for your pardon
With this sorry serenade

Skipped those evening classes
Just to hang around
In the end was it worth it
For the words you wrote down
Left to start a band
To play the songs you stole
Got busy digging ditches
Til you couldn't fill the holes

Did you ever stop to think
How she felt when you turned cold
The way that she trembled
Without a hand to hold
You wish that you could call her
But you can't pick up the phone
Counting all the ways that
you might spend your days alone

If I could be there tonight
I'd write a different song
But I guess I'll send this letter
And try to move along
I'm haunted by the pain I caused
In our high rise days
I'm begging for your pardon
With this sorry serenade

If I could be there tonight
I'd write a different song
But I guess I'll send this letter
And try to move along
I'm haunted by the pain I caused
In our high rise days
I'm begging for your pardon
With this sorry serenade

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from Killing The Old Ways, released April 8, 2022

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