Sun Kil Moon - October Blues lyrics

I can't tell the smoke from the fog
Oh my love i can’t see the bridge today
From my bay window, oh my love
Lonely, lonely days
Just me and a Fante book and your cat
I can't wait for you
I can't wait for you to come back

I need your love like a
Crack addict needs crack
In the flower pot that’s sit's
On my fire escape
The mother dove and her young
Ones are long gone
Over the summer they flew away

Last night I came home the studio and I cried
Lookin' at old photos of myself in a cabin
In West Virginia when I was a child
I used to spend all day
Catching salamanders in thе steam
And me and my dad would catch catfish
And trout and cook 'em up in
Thе firepit with my family

I only have a few memories of each
Year of my elementary school life
In kindergarten I used to nap on a rug
That looked like a huge green dollar bill
In the first grade I remember them
Dousing my hair for lice
And gettin' a shot for chicken pox
And in the second grade
I remember tornado drills
In the third we had a project
Where we buried time capsules
Mine had cut outs of David Bowie and
Patti Smith and Led Zeppelin articles

When I looked at the other kids capsules
I knew I was on a different
Path than the other kids
In the fourth grade on Music Day I
Brought Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
And a kid we called John the Babtist
Had to leave during that portion
Rock 'n' roll was against his religion

Now I walk through the
San Francisco streets and
I see all the seagulls and the pigeons
And I carry this weight
It's called middle-aged depression
I have so many friends whose mothers and
Fathers passed of cancer at 59
And hey I'll be 59 in five years’ time

Baby, baby when you comin’ I
Need you in my corner
Like Ali needed Dundee like
Duran needed Ray Arcel
You're my everything, you’re my best friend
And you're my lover
If they put a gun on me I
Would never trade you for another

Oh yeah I got the October blues
When I walk it's like I
Got cement in my shoes
Oh yeah I got the October blues
The California fires keep burning the
Smoke oozing and oozing
Oh yeah I got the October blues
I look out my window and everyone has moved
Oh yeah I got the October blues
Oh yeah I got the October blues
Throughout the day and night all
I hear are sirens
I watched the debate the other night
Where Trump abrasively interrupted Joe Biden
I'm makin’ peace with these ordinary
Life watching news days
When I go to sleep i see the
Lambent light of my candle flickering
The heat wave is so bad i use
It to kill off the mosquitoes
When I fall asleep I see spooky apparitions
The walks along the plywood storefronts don't
Do much for my emotional condition
I got no job got no travel, I got no paycheck
But, you're comin' home on
Tuesday and that beats
The fuck out of a tour date in Quebec
Talked to a friend in New York this morning
Today their puttin' their family dog to sleep
And I talked to another friend last week
Whose house burned to the
Ground in Berry Creek

And I'm sittin' here in the
Studio sticky from the heat
Counting my blessings
So I don't have hit's like
Johnny Cash or Waylon Jennings
And there's so many weddings and funerals
That by zoom we're all attending
But time with you I know
I'll soon be spending
And that's The October Blues ending