Irrelevant Lyrics

Irrelevant lyrics

There's only one light on in the house
And that's the light up in the
hall
And it's shining on the back of my head
And I'm concentrating hard
on the cigarette
To the ashtray from the ashtray back to my lips
So I
lean up from my easy chair
I rub my three-day beard
And give that
thousand yard stare
As I recall all the time and money we spent
Before I
became irrelevant
So the straw dog threw rocksalt
And the precious girl
took a bow and walked
As I ran my finger over the screen door
Yeah every
kiss has reeked on betrayal
Since my heroine jumped the guardrail
And
decided who she wanted to be once more
Now every night I'm paralyzed
By
the fear of rope burns and morning light
And the smell of wet
cement
Since I became irrelevant
Now memory is just a flash flood
A
thick and black sticky mud
And heartache it's like a breaking bone
It was
always twelve hours on a missionary line
You think I would've spared some
time
But I didn't I never went home
Now it occurs to me like blinds
undrawn
Or a bullet from a shotgun
That she knew long ago what it
meant
To feel irrelevant
Now I'm always smilin'  cyryin'
And hidin' my
intent
SInce I became irrelevant