Moving-Jeffrey/Jack Lewis

[ti:Moving] [ar:Jeffrey Lewis] [al:City & Eastern Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Moving - Jeffrey/Jack Lewis [00:24.61]It went well [00:25.43]You didn't have to do it all by yourself [00:27.36]Some friends came over and helped [00:29.11]A hand truck a friend with a van [00:31.29]And you're moving out again [00:32.66]Remembering when you first came [00:35.10]It's crazy these streets look the same [00:36.84]They looked different when they were strange [00:38.97]And it's always weird to erase [00:40.53]Every personal trace [00:42.46]From a place you called home for a while [00:44.52]And see all that you own in a pile [00:46.55]A place that had become a friend [00:48.23]To return it to how it had been [00:49.98]To be friends with whomever moves in [00:53.08] [01:10.18]And you stick around [01:11.05]After all the boxes are down [01:12.56]The fridge is empty just one ice tray [01:15.24]And you swept and mopped more today [01:17.12]Than the entire time that you stayed [01:18.80]It's a shame you now have to leave [01:20.81]The place is actually nice when it's clean [01:22.62]It wasn't hard mopping the floor [01:24.62]Why didn't you ever do that before [01:26.05]Now the van is down on the corner [01:28.49]And you've done everything that you're gonna [01:30.23]There's some pennies and dust on that shelf [01:32.17]But the landlord can clean it herself [01:34.04]And you're not sure but you're going to claim [01:36.04]The blinds were busted like that when you came [01:41.40]Man so existential in that room [01:43.21]So existential with that broom [01:46.54] [01:48.47]Cause the room looks the same [01:49.86]Except there's no life left [01:51.50]And you start thinking about death [01:55.42] [01:56.99]When you die will it be the same [01:58.86]No more thoughts decorating your brain [02:00.73]An empty space for the world to reclaim [02:02.55]You're on the verge of thinking something deep [02:06.36]Then you hear the van give the beep [02:09.06]Then you take one last look around to make sure [02:12.51]Then you take one last walk out the door [02:14.63]And you'll never again see the angle [02:16.31]Of the street you saw from that window [02:18.40]You take the key out of your pocket [02:20.40]You close the front door and you lock it [02:22.46]Drop the key back through the slot [02:24.08]Sure hope there's nothing you forgot