Businessman from "Red Shift" by Echo Bloom

- Businessman -

Elevator elevator take me to the 22nd floor
Take me through this quiet building, slowly pause and open up the door
Dying in American suburbia for supervisor’s pay
18 years spent working for the government in Washington Dee Cee
Every day another stream of car, work, sleep, reeee peeeeeet
Huddled with a phone receiver whispering to an answering machine

Don't wait up for me, you'll feel better in the morning if you sleep
Amy disagrees, but she drifts off anyway and waits to dream

Distantly the echoes of explosions bring our businessman around
Washington's a smoldering ruin, a siren is the only other sound
Walking calmly back inside he switches on the radio to hear

Don't wait up for me, you'll feel better in the morning if you sleep
Amy disagrees, but she drifts off anyway and waits to dream

My family albums filled with pictures looking back at
me, I've found I'm ready for the sea

Elevator elevator take me to the parking garage door
Take me to the beach and find the businessman all lined up down the shore
Ankle-deep in quiet water holding out their flashlights to the sea

Don't wait up for me, you'll feel better in the morning if you sleep
Amy disagrees, but she drifts off anyway and waits to dream

• Alternative
• Country
• Folk
• Unclassifiable
• singer-songwriter
• Bremen