NATHAN ASHER AND THE INFANTRY JAMES LYRICS

James comes in with an old postcard face in his hand,
saying "Someday she'll finally catch me, try and make me an honest man."
The nights are sticky hot in June,
we stay up late screaming at the moon.
Bottle turned on its side, cutting holes in the reservation night.
You're my best friend, don't lie, don't cry, don't die.
Never die.

They made us walk the plank,
the last of the straight laced gang fell away back in '98
We said we'd rob a bank
The pirates off the cape could never take the jewels we have given away by mistake.
They'll never take away what you meant to me James.

I can never stay in one place
but fuck you man, it's not my fault.
Thought I was following the moon,
it was only a stone thrown from a catapult.
It led me up and over the wall.
The mayor's daughter in the banquet hall
stumbling back into my childhood home
where these ghosts should know to leave me alone.
You're worthless, you don't know, you don't show, you don't go.
Never go.

They drugged us in our sleep.
They took away the saving grace of our heavy dreams.
A preacher or a priest giving reasons for these skinned knees.
At least they let us keep the things that they couldn't see.
They'll never take away what you meant to me James.

Let's go down to the river, a little bit further,
Don't throw up here, let's go.
You put me on your back and you sag under the heavy load.
Lying there, in time you reached...
I feel tired, throw me in the back seat.
Throwing up on the side of the car,
windows down so we can shout at the stars,
"I know you, I know your fucking name, you were watching back in '98."
Cold stars in a cold, cold state;
you were gone before my birthday came.
In a coffin, reaching up for you,
you could drag me into conflict too.
All the oceans and heavy rain,
every train wreck and every train
could never take away, could never take away,
could never take away what you meant to me James.