Of all the songs here, "Keep Me 'Round" is the most modern sounding song. It's really inspired by writers like John Moreland and Jason Isbell. It's probably one of the songs I'm proudest of out of everything I've written. Also the ending does sort of a "Thunder Road" thing, so that's cool too.
lyrics
Hey come on down and have a drink
I hear you're back in town
You can tell me everything you think
And we'll drink until we drown
Playing catch-up like old army men
Remembering the war
But ours wasn't one of armaments
Just words and so much more
(chorus) Well I guess I haven't changed, I guess I'm still the man you left behind
I guess I'm still the same, even after passing all this time
But I bet you're someone new, even smarter than you were before
There wasn't nothing you couldn't do, you could find the key to any door
but I hope that you still wanna keep me ‘round
Remember on hot summer nights
when the world had gone to bed?
And we’d carry on with another fight
cause of something in my head?
But when the heat had died back down
we were still both standing there
And here we are back in this town
trying to bring ourselves to care
(chorus)
(Bridge) But I’m still lost and I’m still a mess
And I still don’t really know how to dress
And I still don’t feel like a full-grown man
Feel like a little boy who could fit in your hand
Well it’s mostly burned down battlefields
back in our rearviews now
We coulda used less swords and used less shields
if only we’d have known how
Oh I could make you empty promises
but I don’t wanna break my own heart
It’s so clear now what the problem is
if only we knew from the start
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