Washington Square Lullaby

Maddy Clark - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Matt Ascione - Acoustic and Electric Guitars
Chris Barrett - Drums
Mike Tony Echols - Bass
Dre King - Hammond C-3 Organ

 Produced and engineered by Ken Barnum at Bias Studios, Springfield, VA
Mastered by Mike Monseur

It’s your birthday today and I almost called
I drove down your street and your house was dark
And I thought of your mother and rosewater cakes
And Manhattan weekends, winters in Maine

It’s North Carolina, tangled in sheets
You smell like the ocean and taste like the breeze
You’re dripping in honey skies, smoking your weed
Your shirt’s on the floor you’ve got sand in your feet

Now I find myself wearing your clothes on the floor
Remember in rose and my memory’s worn
I know that I once meant enough to make you cry
Now it’s so long, Washington Square lullaby

The bus drops me off in the Bowery
The middle of the night but you wait in the street
Sipping your coffee so patiently
”Love have you lost your mind?” You said “I couldn’t sleep”

Morning
Crept up on us without warning
Fell in love to Channel Orange
We fell apart like the rain

Now I find myself wearing your clothes on the floor
Remember in rose and my memory’s worn
I know that I once meant enough to make you cry
I’m stuck in July caught in the heat
Desperately pulling my feet from this creek
I know that I once meant enough to make you try

Well I don’t know how to be something you miss
Your love at first sight, and I’m sealed with a kiss
Your name forever staining mine
Now it’s so long, Washington Square lullaby

I chew up goodbye on the back of my tongue
I ran from your nest too frail to be stung
And I muse on the coward and what we’d have become
If you were a better man, easier to love

I don’t know how to be something you miss
Your love at first sight, and I’m sealed with a kiss
Your name forever staining mine
Now it’s so long, Washington Square lullaby

Let this be the last time
That I pay you mind
Let this be the last
Washington Square lullaby