Iowa Police

from Doog by Ben Roth

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Oh no, oh no
its just too much to take.
all the books I read for help
don’t bring you back to me.
no they don’t fix anything.
In a dark, dark room
I read a letter that I wrote you.
there were songs I had to sing to you
and things I should have told you
while I had the chance to.

When Iowa police tried to take my life me
I called you on the phone to tell you that they couldn’t keep me from you.
I don’t know where we all go
why we all end up as ghosts
I will take you with me everywhere I go.

And now we toss, turn, repeat
keep looking for an end
but they never justify the means it takes to get to them
or why your heart stopped beating.

when the Iowa police tried to take my life from me
I called you on the phone to tell you that they couldn’t keep me from you.
I don’t know where we all go
why we all end up as ghosts
I will take you with me everywhere I go.
We were just kids living for the weekend
with our heads in the impossible tension
we were bulletproof and innocent, we were kids living for the weekend.

When the Iowa police tried to take my life from me
I called you on the phone to tell you that they couldn’t keep me from you
I don’t know where we all go
why we all end up as ghosts
I will take you with me everywhere I go.
We were just kids living for the weekend
with our heads in the impossible tension
we were bulletproof and innocent, we were kids living for the weekend.

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from Doog, released November 23, 2010

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