Watching Strangers Smile - Parquet Courts

Watching strangers smile

Never knew it was a privilege

Until the white fearful eyes was all I saw

Filling out forms as the whole music loops

Now I’ve been trapped inside for weeks on end

My knees, my back, my brain all start to bend

City music makes me want to lose my mind

Like when it taunts me through the bite of summer evenings

Walk out the door to the store, buy a beer

And I’m so paranoid my mask will slip

I just can’t seem to get a goddamn grip, a grip, a grip

Do you think about book and letter?

Make the effort that you won’t

Do you have 20/20 vision?

I don’t