Young Shields - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

There’s a shield around us

It’s invisible & soundless

& we drink too much & xxxx too soon

Smoke cigarettes in rented rooms

We quit our jobs & shoot the moon

& cut our wrists & sleep til noon

There’s a shield around us

We’re invincible & boundless

& we’re on the run from I don’t know

We’re Patty Hearst & Squeaky Fromme

Asleep on subways far from home

You’d think we’d never seen a comb

Sent a letter to Mom & Dad

Mom & Dad the money’s running out

Got a letter from Mom & Dad

They didn’t send me anything

There’s a shield around us

We are heady we are groundless

& we burn our friends & kill their names

Build insecure & petty fames

& tattoo things that we believe

Stars & skulls & hearts in half-sleeves

There’s a shield around us

Tell me how is it you’ve found us

Cause we hide our tracks & watch the ground

Our footfalls they don’t make a sound

We’ve cursed the names of our hometowns

We’re compassless & nowhere bound

Sent a letter to Mom & Dad

Mom & Dad the money’s running out

Got a letter from Mom & Dad

I swear to God they don’t get me at all