Astray - Horrorshow, Dan Caplen

Can you hear the sirens off in the distance?

Hoping they don’t come my way

While I’m tryna maintain, keep up resistance

I can feel them hiding, off in the shadows

Hear ‘em whispering my name

But I’m tryna maintain on the straight and narrow

She’s tryna explain all the things she might do

If I only just let her

She keep talking about love, I only just met her

Tryna be a man of my word, down to the letter

And if I didn’t know better

I’d swear that you were tryna break me

Make me learn the error of my ways

The whole room is lost in the beat as we sway

She leans into me and says don’t be a stranger, and

And I could be so easily persuaded

So please don’t you lead me astray

'Cause I been up so high, free falling

I feel like we’ll be kings by morning

And in the quiet I can hear them calling

I feel like we’ll be kings by morning

In the eerie silence, while the city’s sleeping

I replay it in my brain

All the strangers and exchanges of the evening

The secrets I been keeping

But I been running my mouth, running round town, running amok, running rampant

I been forming habits, throwing caution to the wind, reckless abandon

I been talking candid to these strangers man but they can’t understand it

That I’m dropping off the face of the planet, shit this ain’t how I planned it

What you grabbing my hand for?

Tryna drag me out on that dance floor

Something tells me that you a handful and I ain’t the one to make demands on,

but

All of this going round and around in my head whether I’m here or I’m there

Looking around at me at everyone else and I’m wondering what is it going round

theirs

The whole room is lost in the beat as we sway

She leans into me and says, ‘Don't be afraid.'

The look in her eye saying I should obey

Surrounded by all of the downfallen prey

'Cause the whole room is lost in the beat as we sway

It’s so hard to leave and so easy to stay

Then it hits me—and I hate to be so cliché

It’s me who’s gon' lead me astray

'Cause I been up so high, free falling

I feel like we’ll be kings by morning

And in the quiet I can hear them calling

I feel like we’ll be kings by morning

'Cause I been up so high, free falling

I feel like we’ll be kings by morning

I guess I didn’t heed that warning

I feel like we’ll be kings by morning