Smoke Signals

I went with you up to the place you grew up

And we spent a week in the cold

Just long enough to Walden it with you

Any longer, it would've got old

Singin' "Ace of Spades" when Lemmy died

But nothing's changed, L.A.'s alright

I'm sleepin' in my bed again

And gettin' in my head and then

Walk around the reservoir

You

You must've been lookin' for me

Sendin' smoke signals

Pelicans circling

Burnin' trash out on the beach

One of your eyes is always half-shut

Somethin' happened when you were a kid

I didn't know you then and I'll never understand

Why it feels like I did

"How Soon Is Now" in an eighties sedan

You slept inside of it because your dad

Lived in a campground in the back of a van

You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead

And you

Must've been lookin' for me

Sendin' smoke signals

Pelicans circling

Burnin' trash out on the beach

I wanna live at the Holiday Inn

Where somebody else makes the bed

We'll watch TV while the lights on the street

Put all the stars to death

It's been on my mind since Bowie died

Just checking out to hide from life

And all of our problems, I'm gonna solve 'em

With you ridin' shotgun

Speeding 'cause fuck the cops

And you

You must've been lookin' for me

Sendin' smoke signals

Pelicans circling

Burnin' trash out on the beach

Mm-mm

I buried a hatchet, it's comin' up lavender

The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor

I'm at the exit, lookin' back through the hall

You are anonymous, I am a concrete wall