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Empty Towers

from .​.​.​It Roars by JSR

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I'm tired of cliches but this city is filled with ghosts and spit shined decay
and I'm making my peace with it
let them tear down these monuments to you and me and who I used to be

I had to stop by our old house, there's someone new there
but I bet you knew that
and I can't blame him but I can't help but hate him
cause he'll never know
about the red door, cracked ceilings embedded with meaning, and the ghosts that we swore were there
but the only thing haunting this place in the end was me, and the rosebush that finally died

and I feel like I can't escape
buried my youth off of Williams and MLK
and I'd rather this block be razed, let more empty towers take its place

I'm back on the streets I grew up on, that we used to get drunk on
and everything's changing
and I'm so sick of complaining, though I hate it
cause they'll never know
about flipping through pages in Mutiny's stacks and the skateshop now a tapas bar
and I can't even stumble back home any more without seeing you or a place we used to love

and I feel like I can't escape
buried my youth off the old South Broadway
and I'd rather this block be razed, let more empty towers take its place

I keep having this vivid dream of the Platte catching fire at the confluence with Cherry Creek
in every direction it sweeps, up every bank and burns down everything this city used to be, that this city meant to me

and I feel like I can't escape
buried my youth off these dirty waterways
and I'd rather this block be razed, let more empty towers take its place

I'll let it burn, you can have the rubble

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from .​.​.​It Roars, released December 15, 2018

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JSR started as a solo project in 2008, and morphed into a full band in 2012. Anti-capitalist, pro-oxford comma.

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