Recent Songs: Pick Me Up

Pick Me Up (Oh Molly)


Classic caramel brown
Or that sorta emerald green
Ain’t nothing ever served in rose?
The crowd is growing - swelling of cacophony
So many faces blue by the lights of their smart phones

I don’t belong here
She whispers to herself
And where she’d sleep still don’t feel like a home
The bricks are hard on
Her office heels
Tonight she feels like she’s a thousand miles out alone

Oh Molly
Won’t you pick me up?
I’m in no shape for driving
It ain’t the bottle’s fault
I’m just blind from crying
Been taking it easy
But this year’s been hard on me
All of my heroes keep dying
It’s getting hard to breathe
From all the smoke that won’t rise off of the flags burning
Oh won’t you hold me sister
What I’d give for a good night’s sleep

The news show’s playing
Muted but closed-captioned
No one’s watching, still it must go on
Ruthlessly romantic – some do drink their sweet hubris
A toast to loneliness lost in the roar of immediacy

I don’t want opinions
I just want to be
Hard to live and let live when you’re living off me
I don’t want opinions
If you don’t have any
You only hear what you want and insist we must agree

And I don’t belong here!
She screams at the bathroom mirror
Forgive and forget say all her so-called friends
Yesterday’s scoundrels
Take their bows, having never atoned
Tonight she feels like she’s a thousand miles out alone

Oh Molly
Won’t you pick me up?
I’m in no shape for driving
It ain’t the bottle’s fault
I’m just blind from crying
Been taking it easy
But this year’s been hard on me
All of my heroes keep dying
It’s getting hard to breathe
Hard for that smoke to rise while the sky’s falling
Oh won’t you hold me sister
What I’d give for a good night’s sleep

Oh won’t you hold me sister
What I’d give for a good night’s sleep


August 14th, 2016