Orphans
The Gaslight Anthem

Goodbye circus wheel
May you rest along the sea
I have given you the fire of my youth
And the triumph o're my enemies
Goodbye fair weather home, and your faithless factories
I have given you the blood and the truth
from the wounds they laid onto me
And whatever they left, well, I kept it for my own heart

And the lonesome all understand
With the choirs in my head
And we were orphans before
We were ever the sons of regret
My baby
And on and on and on
the alphabet boys carry on
We were orphans before
We were ever the sons of these songs

And now my lights, they never go down
they waltz the moon and stars for me now
So you can find some local libertine
to take your daughters out on the town
And I can feel it in my aging bones
How the sound of the rain mixes up
into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood
So I left you to find my very own hat full of rain

And the lonesome all understand
With the choirs in my head
And we were orphans before
We were ever the sons of regret
My baby
And on and on and on
the alphabet boys carry on
We were orphans before
We were ever the sons of these songs

Now I'm trying to keep it straight
Learning all the streets and the alleyways
And learning where they lead
Now that I'm left alone here to drive
But it's so hard to stand on your own
Against mirror of glass, hard and cold
But the clothes I wore
Just don't fit my soul anymore
No the clothes I wore
Just don't fit my soul anymore

And the lonesome all understand
With the choirs in my head
And we were orphans before
We were ever the sons of regret
My baby
And on and on and on
the alphabet boys carry on
We were orphans before
We were ever the sons of these songs

When we were young
We were diamond Sinatras
Like something I saw in a dream
We kept our secrets in rooms
locked up tight like a tomb
Where the ballerinas lay


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Lyrics by The Gaslight Anthem

  "45"   1,000 Years   1000 Years   1930   45   Ain't That a Shame   American Slang   Angry Johnny And The Radio   Antonia Jane (Lightning Dust cover)   Anywhere I Lay My Head   Biloxi Parish   Blue Dahila   Blue Dahlia   Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts   Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts   Blue Jeans And White T-Shirts   Boomboxes And Dictionaries   Boxer   Break Your Heart   Bring It On   Casanova Baby   Casanova, Baby!   Dark Places   Desire   Drive   Even Cowgirls Get The Blues   Film Noir   Get Hurt   God's Gonna Cut You Down   God's Gonna Cut You Down (Johnny Cash cover)   Gods Gonna Cut You Down   Great Expectations   Halloween   Handwritten   Have Mercy   Helter Skeleton   Here Comes My Man   Here's Looking At You Kid   Here's Looking At You, Kid   Here's Looking At You, Kid   High Lonesome   Hold You Up   Howl   I Coulda Been A Contender   I'da Called You Woody, Joe   I’da Called You Woody, Joe   Keepsake   Liars On Fire   Mae   Making Whoopee   Mama's Boys   Meet Me by the River's Edge   Meet Me By The River's Edge   Miles Davis & The Cool   Miles Davis And The Cool   Misery   Mulholland Drive   National Anthem   Old Haunts   Old White Lincoln   Once Upon a Time   Once Upon a Time (Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surp...   Red At Night   Red In The Morning   Red Violins   Rollin and Tumblin   Rollin' And Tumblin'   Rollin' And Tumblin'   Say I Won't (Recognize)   Se\u00f1or And The Queen   Señor And The Queen   Señor and the Queen   Selected Poems   Senor And The Queen   She Loves You   Silver   Skinny Love   Sliver   Sliver (Nirvana cover)   State Of Love And Trust   State of Love and Trust (Pearl Jam cover)   Stay Lucky   Stay Vicious   Stray Paper   Sweet Morphine   Teenage Rebellion   The '59 Sound   The '59 Sound   The 59 Sound   The Backseat   The Blues, Mary   The Diamond Church Street Choir   The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover)   The Navesink Banks   The Patient Farris Wheel   The Patient Ferris Wheel   The Queen Of Lower Chelsea   The Spirit Of Jazz   This is Where We Part   Too Much Blood   Tumbling Dice   Underneath The Ground   We Came To Dance   We Did It When We Were Young   We're Getting A Divorce, You Keep The Diner   Wherefor Art Thou, Elvis?   Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?   Wooderson   You Got Lucky   You Got Lucky (Tom Petty cover)

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