The graffiti on the wall says “Fuck the Tories”Outside a takeaway, we’re eating on the streetAnd neon in the window makes the shadows on the carsGlow to a pop song they got playing on repeat The shorebirds sound the same hereWhat did I expect?That song’s always playing in my head Spitting curses, hopping fencesBurning out … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties -Alone At St. Luke’s (lyrics)
It’s been too fucking long. I haven’t seen you since we were kidsAnd I rode a freight train out to come visit you at PittAnd you laugh so loud. Let your hand rest on my knee.I sip on a tonic cause I been trying not to drink And I flash back to us — Monongahela … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Monongahela (lyrics)
No one told the birds the world was endingSo they keep singing like it’s springI walk with Colin after dinnerWe split a coke and watch the sunset do its thing The church around the corner is having service on the lawnAnd drawing pictures on the pavementIn their pastel sidewalk chalkOf doves and palms and cartoon … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Paying Bills At The End Of The World (lyrics)
It’s almost dusk, I pull the car from the garageAnd light the oil heater up, to try fight off early marchI put a baseball through the windowSo winters climbing in between the shards The band shows up when everybody’s done their shiftsWe play through the all changes I wrote in marker on my wristAnd we … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Roman Candles (lyrics)
Feels like shit to be alone againThe majestic viewsOf these run down green roomsAll the grime and mildew Bad graffiti on the cold cementIn back halls ofAll these struggling rock clubsWhere I’m calling home from I’ll be gone a few weeks, kid. I hope you understand.I made promises. I plan on keeping them.Everybody always leaves, … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Smoking Rooms (lyrics)
All of us hereUnder the same roof againI’m sitting in your favorite chairPlaying with the fraying threadsI’m sleeping in Catherine’s roomIn a twin sized bedShe shares mine with Colin ’causeIt’s got more space for himAnd Pop, she ain’t in no shapeTo take care of anything So I’ll bring him to schoolAnd tell him that it’s … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Routine Maintenance (lyrics)
I saw my sister lay in bedChain-smoking cigarettesWindow open, November’s spilling inI made a cross over my headI dipped my fingertipsIn the calcified green holy water dish I took pity on your battered soulAnd never let you inI feel like a lost winter coatIn a county church’s basementWhere I weptI can’t believe that I’m here … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Winter Coats (lyrics)
Do you think that god reads the billboards?Soaked in fluorescent lightShadows thrown on the honky-tonkWe played early tonightI hadn’t heard from you latelyI think of you all the time November out in DakotaAll the unending coldI watch exhaust from the tail pipesStart to blacken the snowI think it got in the billboardsExhale and answer the … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – God & The Billboard (lyrics)
I used to hate all my dad’s outlaw country bands he’d play me when I was youngCause they’d lie through their teeth about the lives they lead when all I wanted were honest songsBut now they’re anthems in the van and we’re screaming them out on highway for good luckIn the bright blistering sun Runnin’ … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Runnin’ Toward The Light (lyrics)
I stood up tall in the flowersAll with bright yellow blooms at the tipLike they’ve been set on fireAnd put out but left alone. All of the embers stay litAnd I passed a hillside in TexasWhere the cacti all raised up their armsLike they’ve been caught in prayerTo some evangelist preacher or absentee gods So … Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – Wildflower Honey (lyrics)