Hideous Towns

stuck in the same room again
no words to spit back out
we've sucked them back
into ourselves

as i scan the room
i see the space
where the record player sat
i used to spin those records
violently

but now i can't stand the sound
of the singing anymore

there's no retreat for us
not a moment of slumber
as we walk into the streets
as the little sunlight we get
in this dreary mountain town
blinds our tear-stained eyes
and drowns out all
the hideous sounds

now when i get home
i just want to go to sleep
i don't want to laugh
or talk so tenderly

i just want to go to sleep