By ZoE
Date: 9 June 2000

Blue Car Manhatten 2 miles

I hated those cigarettes Monday but I smoked them anyway
come Tuesday you had said you were sorry but we couldn’t go back

all the traffic lights were calling us back
tangled in cat’s cradle in New York

I love you though you are no longer mine
and I am someone else’s daughter

Those black labels were sinking in to you
until you had no thoughts to lack anymore

I was running away to nowhere
and I had nothing to hold on to

and you had nothing but hate back in that house
that woman was sucking you dry

You said I’d hate it in california
everyone would be fornicating

and either way I only had one pair of shoes
but again I can see all your money we spent got us nowhere

we are here
back where we started
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