The National - New Order T-Shirt (Live in Rome)

The National - New Order T-Shirt (Live in Rome)

Recorded live at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, Rome - 3rd June 2024.

Lyrics:

How you tapped on a box of blue American Spirits

At Anyway Café, a little under a month, before the ashes

And management capital files filled the streets

How we wove through the cones walkin' home to the place

On Atlantic, you shared with your hilarious sister

Kickin' off your black flats, demolished and laughin'

I keep what I can of you

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holdin' a cat and a glass of beer

When you rescued me from the customs cops in Hawaii

And I shut down the place with my Japanese novelty bomb

And your dad came along

How you had me lay down for a temperature check

With the cool of your hand on the back of my neck

When I said, "I think I'm finally goin' crazy, for real"

I keep what I can of you

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holdin' a cat and a glass of beer

I flicker through

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

You in a Kentucky aquarium

Talkin' to a shark in a corner

You in a bath on the phone, tellin' somebody

That maybe they're better off leavin'

Than stayin' in it alone

You in a bath on the phone, tellin' somebody

That maybe they're better off leavin'

Than stayin' in it alone

When you cried at the beach and recovered in seconds

And said, "Everythin"s fine, " but I knew that it wasn't

Then you stayed out of reach of me for almost a year

How you looked like a poster of a 70s movie

Standin' outside at the base of your magazine skyscraper

Waitin' for me to go drinkin' downtown

I keep what I can of you

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holdin' a cat and a glass of beer

I flicker through

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

You in a Kentucky aquarium

Talkin' to a shark in a corner

I keep what I can of you

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holdin' a cat and a glass of beer

I flicker through

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

You in a Kentucky aquarium

Talkin' to a shark in a corner