Testo di Tonight

I picture Steve at the factory, his fingers feel like wire There's got to be 'bout a million better ways to spend eleven hours In his head he's already quit, and when he finishes this shift watch him drive To a place where the sky opens up and he sits with the crickets and writes Of stars over Washington, and knives in the front I know you can only eat caterpillars for so long Before a beautiful butterfly emerges from your mouth An emerald, an anthem, a song Jon and Johnny, Eric and I Set a course for the north but we're only bringing our bikes See us pedal like devils across state lines Sing to the crows and shout at the vanishing light Well the Swiatlowski brothers better get up Find us lost in a river in southern Vermont Alone in the forest, singing a chorus, fearless The hopeful and the unafraid There's jobs and there's bills and there's brain cells to kill Tonight let's abandon the bars There's Cumberland Farms and its parking lot charms Tonight we'll surrender our cars And lay in back yards with thrift store guitars Wear poison ivy like battle scars of a summer where I know we tried so hard And it wasn't a fight, but we won