Less Than Five Miles Away

Less than five miles away
Between the cold drinks in the freezer, and the latest tabloid racks, a voice screams over the music, “Put the money in the bag”
No one ever hears his reasons, no one ever hears his name, this is all happening right now
Less than five miles away
A shifty fortune teller, communion with the dead, lying about the astral plane, so she can keep her children fed
Listening to a mother sick with cancer, wondering what she’s gonna say
This is all happening right now, less than five miles away
This is all happening right now, less than five miles away
A stranger in the bushes looking through the windows of a home, and a woman from the movies, who’s been living there alone
She’s home at seven in the evening, he sees the code punched in the gate,
This is all happening right now, less than five miles away
This is all happening right now,
And it all looks so pretty from a distance, and we’re living out this story that we tell,
Maybe we were both designed out in the palisades, is just a way of asking questions about its state
You know the great rider that left us, well his house is still around
Like an old dead volcano, that sleeps over the town
They’re gonna turn it into condos, they’ll be done by new years day
This is all happening right now, less than five miles away
This is all happening right now….