The Head And The Heart - Fire Escape (Ghost No. 4)

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There’s a fire escape outside of one of the dressing rooms at Seattle’s historic Paramount Theater where after a show many of us would crawl through the window to get some fresh air, smoke some cigarettes and watch as the audience filed out of the doors below. Those moments felt like exclamation points after a passage from an ecstatic poem. You never fully know the shape of the story until, to your surprise, it’s planted its image firmly in the rearview mirror. From that point on it’s just fragments of magic, joy, hope, pain, love and loss and you’re lucky if you can hang on to a little piece of it. This is a love song to those early days, re-imagined here in stark instrumentation. Hopefully it carries with it some that old feeling you can never seem to find, but keep searching for nonetheless.

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- Matty

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LYRICS

I woke up in the alley by the ashtray

In the pink glow of the neon exit sign

When I looked up to see you leaning over me with eyes wide

I must have just been sifting through the twilight

For that feeling I could never seem to find

When you came out to find me here exactly at the right time

I didn’t know it then, but it was destiny in hindsight

We went out for a smoke on the fire escape

So sure of ourselves in those early days

I thought I had my head on straight

But I’m not so sure of that now

How many years stretch out like rubber bands behind us?

Now you’re standing in the doorway like a ghost

There’s still time enough to talk of all the memories we piled high

It’s so damn good to see you

Ain’t it strange the way the time flies?

We went out for a smoke on the fire escape

With that feeling you get when the night’s getting late

I swear I had my head on straight

But I’m not so sure of that now

We settled in for the long dark night

And faded like the Stars and Stripes

We watched it all go up in flames

That morning on the fire escape

And I can’t find the words I’ve been wanting to say

But my friend rest assured it’ll all be okay

I’ve finally got my head on straight

Let it all drift away

And let’s climb to the top of the fire escape

All this time that we spent wasn’t all just a waste

I swear I had my head on straight

But I’m not so sure of that now

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