The Same Stars - Karate

There’s a literal way that you can take everything I say

We could end this right now if you want it that way, but you don’t want it that

way

East coast stories out of books breed ugly, hateful looks in the streets of New

York and LA

Where there’s got to be some kind of institution, but all I see are problems

without the solutions, and

God don’t make things that you can rearrange

But that’s okay, because I can’t take the change

And I’ll be happy when my friends don’t go

When we’re in this town for good I’ll know

I’ll see you somewhere, like Saturdays on museum stairs

And in friends' cars and outside of Irish bars and underneath the same stars

That lit our situations, our impulses and our hesitations

And that will shine on me when this all works out like your planned and I can

tell you that I understand, 'cause

God don’t make things that you can rearrange

But that’s okay, because I can’t take the change

And I’ll be happy when my friends don’t go

When we’re in this town for good I’ll know