Quick Songtext
von Champion Trees

It′s quick and getting quicker
And I'm slowing down
The slick are getting slicker
And they′re leaving town
And everything I took to be solid ground
Is busy sliding

The melancholic honking
Of the evening cars
The hollow honky-tonking
Underneath the stars
Pianoman is playing in the empty bars
Announcing endings

Oh tonic and gin
Tonic, tonic and gin gin gin gin
Gin


I settle down and try to write a couple lines
I can be so derivative and stale sometimes
I want the Gods of Literature to touch my mind
To use it freely

I try to think of things to say and come up dry
The words just don't reveal themselves
I don't know why
I′ve lived days like today a hundred thousand times
So what′s another?

When three weeks have gone by
And I haven't penned a thing
Until right now

The construction site is building in the key of C
Jack-hammering, crescendoing along with me
The heaviness is shedded and I′m on the breeze
On the South-Easter

And today's the kind of day
I knuckle down on bad days
To arrive at
And it′s good
It's really good