By: Alex Wright
Night falls on the Avenue
What’s a sober mind to do
To find love in a war town?
Another Rocket City breakdown
Twist me up like the good old days
Sun kissed sweetness burned to scarred over pain
It was harder than we like to say,
Carving splinters into our changing names
Hanging on by a single thread
I try to remember what Lee said
About appreciating the sun
Once the darkness finally passes
I want to listen to “Ceremony”
And drive these Old Towne streets
The future’s unwritten
But I’ve typed for days
Blacked out but literate with too much to say
And not enough when it counts
Got cut off unannounced
Let the city feel my heartbeat with the windows down
Driving back and forth the side streets
Til we run out of town
I want to fall back in
Love with this place again
I want to feel how it used to feel
Not numbness but something real
Like a Lunar Mansion renaissance
I’m a wrecking ball tonight
Just like Eddie said Ronnie said,
“Be my baby,”
Let’s drive these Old Towne streets
I don’t know why we get so nervous
We’re all searching for the same things
Drawling around this Southern scene
Wondering what it might all mean
Just to find it in ourselves
ALEX WRIGHT CONTAINS MULTITUDES 