Craig Finn - Curtis & Shepard Lyrics

Shepard's where we want him.
He's staying off of Cedar.
He's shacked up with some princess
With a fishtank and a fever.

Her daddy is a doctor.
He sends them decent checks.
He said he's sorry that
He didn't have more time.

Sometimes when they sail off
She forgets to feed the fish.
And they float up to the top
To drift in the abyss.

She removes the ones not moving
With a sacred slotted spoon.
Drops them in the ashtray and
She sighs and pretty soon she says

We should probably make a wish now.
They wish for new inventions
To make this life more easy
Because lately it's been hard.

Curtis moved with purpose.
But he wouldn't say what it was.
He does something with the hubcaps
And the independent trucks.
Skates some empty warehouse
And waits around for lunch.
When they get in touch
He starts to really hustle.

It's a tricky little business
It's hard to thread that needle.
To build a clear consensus
With independent people.

He's always had the feeling
That he'd never see the ocean.
He'd be more apt to negotiate
If the window wasn't closing.

He dreams of sweeping vistas
And machines that clean the streets.
And he wishes it was easy.
He's sorry that he didn't have more time.

Shepard's where we left him.
The princess got recalled
To Phoenix by her father
Who's in talks to cut her off.
Shepard wants to go somewhere
With a little better weather
But he didn't have time
To pull it all together.

Curtis is all business
As he sits and cleans the pistol.
A decade spent in limbo
Waiting on the whistle.

All the years they built up prisons
From decisions that we've made.
He's coming up on Riverside
Like he's off to The Crusades

When Curtis kicks the door in
Then Shepard's on his knees.
Curtis says I'm sorry
That we didn't have more time.

What went down in '89
And again in '93
You did things in this city.
This city's still not happy

Remember in the garden?
In 1997?
And Curtis pulls the trigger.
Now Shepard can't remember.