Sunday Night Black

from NIGHT by Tom Jessen

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lyrics

I can hear the traffic humming out on I80 tonight
sounds like people sleeping, breathing
it's that Sunday night black that
incites these anxiety attacks and
asks you "what in the hell are you doing?"

I conjure furtile dreams of the way its suppose to be
and it seems at one time it used to be
weightless days, weightless days
and I figure out that it could never again be that way
when I spend my time waiting for it to return

Barefoot pajama kids
dance around lightening bugs in grass stained feet
involking all the angels in the night
with the giggles and their fantasies
renewing my classified ad I'm
gonna take whatever I can get well this
trailer is pretty old but it's cheap rent if you can bare the elements

I make some late night calls to no avail at all
disguise my voice in composure
to an answering machine
like laying down on a couch, telling your dreams
operator assistance breaching my silence
"if you'd like to make a call please hang up and try again"

I could really use some place to go tonight
it feels like my chest has collapsed into this gaping hole
and the universe is flying through it like a jet
like a jet

credits

from NIGHT, released March 2, 2002
TJ - guitar, vocals
Paul Cunliffe - drums, percussion
Nate Basinger - rhodes
Andy Parrott - guitar
Marty Christensen - bass

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Tolerate

Feb 2024
The Red Eddies

Jan 2024
Daydream No.19

Dec 2023
Ease Into

Nov 2023
Echo

Aug 2023
Sit

Dec 2022
Sunflower

Oct 2022
Jackie's Blues

Oct 2022
Sounds So Good

Sep 2022
Hunting Season

Jul 2015
NIGHT

Mar 2002
Redemption (out of print)

Oct 1996

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