Comfortable Kid from Liberals by Silo's Choice

you were a comfortable kid, walking up the median to the UDF, jar of dimes and a backpack full of discount CDs. you were a comfortable kid but now you just want to hear the songs you already like - the rustling of familiar branches out on the street reminds you of you

everything is quiet music now, shadow in the corner of your house, and all the cops and Bolsheviks in town will never drag you out.

you were a comfortable kid before we learned to call it The Troubles, way before all of that, back when we still got a shock even seeing a gun. (now we see them a lot.) you were a comfortable kid, and now you just wanna see the friends you've already got, and get drunk on a brand of beer you know you enjoy on a familiar couch

everything is quiet music now, cowering in a corner of your house, when you realize who the lyric is about blood gathers at the corner of your mouth: teeth cracked, every broken glass reveals - the face of a comfortable kid, under the constant weight of familiar snow on the shoulders of the coat your granddad wore in a war: a war you never learned about as a comfortable kid

• Alternative
• Rock
• indie
• Chicago