history from TOWNIE by Please Me

over and over
night in and night out
i find the scraps of yesterday
littered in the street
a friend will ask
"hey can you close my tab?"
"me and this bartender have history"
you live in one play for awhile
they show you the ropes
they give you the history
state college in the land of confederacy
small indie music scene
propped up by twenty somethings
listening to thirty somethings
tell us the history

you live in one place for awhile
the longer you stay
the further you go back
every anecdote comes with a footnote
every band has somebody's ex-love
every show you attend
there's and old girlfriend
standing five feet from their ex
in every direction
they might push and shove in the mosh pit
but they're fighting something else
history

over and over
night in and night out
i feel my body start to take a new shape
look in the mirror
every single day
and i stopped recognizing my own face
don't know when it started to change
it's not my age
but the sum of my history
you live in one place for awhile
and you become the place yourself

you are history
you are history
you are history
you are history
you are history
you're all history
you're all history
you're my history
be my history
be my history
i'll be your history
if you be mine
when im dead you may not remember me
but we'll always have our history

teach me
i want to know you
your history
i want to know the truth
please me
i want to show you
the real me
i want to know him too

• Rock
• Columbia