No Man's Land

from The Beginner's Guide To Birds ( 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 1 8 ) by Painkiller The Pigeon

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Recorded in the laundry room and practice space at Brotown, Chicago IL on December 30 & 31, 2007
Vocals recorded upstairs at Holly & Kyle's house, Saint Paul MN on August 17, 2009, final vocals and mix at the Saint Clair Ave apartment on July 11, 2015

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This isn't the world
I expected to find
The end of an error,
Surrounded on all sides
By barbed wire fences,
Tickets, and parking fines
Wrong attitude girls,
Empty bottles of wine

There are some nights
I can drink the words away
But most times
They just won't behave
No matter who it drives away

(From no man's land)

It's never over
Just take it slower now
You're in over your head
Getting frantic
For some way out of the trench
Well it's a mess in my mind
But that's all that I am
Garbled orders
And so quick to cancel plans

So don't wait,
You'll never believe the things you say
But it's alright
Allow the love of the good ghost,
It won't get in the way

(In no man's land)

You're getting older
It's getting colder and
You're getting lost out here

It's easy to kid yourself
That nothing will ever change
Another night in an empty house
Where everybody knows your name

Do you feel bo(u)lder now
That you've jumped the ride
Bloody minded,
Swimming against the tide
You're waging a war
Against yourself in fits and starts
The last man standing
In a field of broken hearts

Well take it easy,
Don't go over the top tonight
Forgive yourself,
Allow the love of the good ghost now
And you'll be alright

No man's land

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from The Beginner's Guide To Birds ( 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 1 8 ), released December 4, 2020

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