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Riot On An Empty Street Lyrics
"Why, why so quiet?
Oh my, mysterious country singer?" she asked.
My life, it's a riot
I'm climbing barricades
in empty streets at night.
When I'm down
fighting shadows.
Twenty-five postcards
in a box in my room.
Telephone conversations,
gas slowly leaking out
of a heart-shaped balloon.
It's a dangerous game
that I'm not sure
if I could keep playing for long.
It's a dangerous game,
it's a very fine line
and if one step is wrong...
I have no cards to play
and that's why
I've got nothing to say,
tonight.
I've got nothing to say,
tonight.
Oh my, mysterious country singer?" she asked.
I'm climbing barricades
in empty streets at night.
fighting shadows.
Twenty-five postcards
in a box in my room.
gas slowly leaking out
of a heart-shaped balloon.
that I'm not sure
if I could keep playing for long.
It's a dangerous game,
it's a very fine line
and if one step is wrong...
I have no cards to play
and that's why
I've got nothing to say,
tonight.
I've got nothing to say,
tonight.
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Submitted by
lutti On Sep 25, 2009
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I love this song, in fact every track on the album is a masterpiece. I think the lyrics could be either two things, a guy in a long-distance relationship that is slowly fading OR a man having an affair. Both seem to work, actually! He seems to have quite a busy life away from her, and over time he realizes he doesn't love her anymore. She sends him postcards and heart-shaped balloons to show that she still cares, but he just lets it deflate. I think in the last verse he finds he cannot say anything, either because he fears he might give away the affair, or that he doesn't care enough to have a conversation with her. But that's just my opinion...