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Kevin Devine – The Shift Change Splits the Streets Lyrics 17 years ago
This song, like so many of Kevin's other songs, is about drugs and the effects they have over his life. Like deadfinch said, "pushing pins through the pavement sounds like a reference to heroin. When he says "adding days to the week" he's talking about how slow the drugs have made his life become; nothings exciting anymore. And in the next lines he's describing how things in his life are falling apart and everyone around him is oblivious to that.
In the next verse, he's talking about stealing money from his brother Michael to buy these drugs, but Michael didn't notice because he was out doing drugs too.
I'm really not sure about the last verse, but it seems like he is trying to depict how backwards things in his life have become, and that everything going on is still affecting him.

All I know is this is an amazing song and Kevin Devine is an incredible lyricist.

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