[Verse 1] Look what you've gone and done The money is all run out You're shaking in your doubt What you gonna do now? Look how your little finger trembles You have been upended by your muse You thought she was giving you the good stuff You swear you were swimming it But symmetry ain't so easy for you now Oh you've forgotten how To sing those old songs you used to know And it's all just a reminder that Calliope has left you She's gone to join the other boys at the bar
[Chorus] Why can't you just let the record play? Remember how it used to come so easily to you When you were younger When you were younger
[Verse 2] They turned off the lights in your apartment But you keep a candle burning all the time For Calliope You pray that you can lure her from the grime From the opiates But you're letting all the cold in darling Be careful now You could always go back to San Antonio Sit on your mother's porch And wait for a dam to overflow
[Chorus] Why can't you just let the record play? Remember how it used to come so easily to you When you were younger When you were younger
[Bridge] Don't be so fragile now Just let the needle down Don't be so fragile now Just let the needle down Don't be so fragile now Just let the needle down Don't be so fragile now Just let the needle down Don't be so fragile now Just let the needle down Don't be so fragile now Just let the
[Outro] Why can't you just let the record play? Remember how it used to come so easily when You were younger like a liver overflowing Reaching for your mother's handTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
