HomePhoebe BridgersStranger in the Alps (Deluxe Edition)Smoke Signals Lyrics
LyricsTrack 10

Smoke Signals

Lines

45

Words

291

Album Tracks

2

Verse 1

I went with you up to the place you grew up in

We spent a week in the cold

Just long enough to Walden it with you

Any longer, it would've got old

Singin' "Ace of Spades" when Lemmy died

But nothing's changed, LA's alright

I'm sleepin' in my bed again and gettin' in my head

And then, walk around the reservoir

Chorus

You, you must've been looking for me

Sendin' smoke signals, pelicans circling

Burning trash out on the beach

Verse 2

One of your eyes is always half-shut

Somethin' happened when you were a kid

I didn't know you then and I'll never understand

Why it feels like I did

"How Soon Is Now" in an 80s sedan

You slept inside of it because your dad

Lived in a campground in the back of a van

You said that song will creep you out until you're dead

Chorus

And you must've been looking for me

Sendin' smoke signals, pelicans circling

Burning trash out on the beach

Verse 3

I wanna live at the Holiday Inn

Where somebody else makes the bed

We'll watch TV while the lights on the street

Put all the stars to death

It's been on my mind since Bowie died

Just checkin' out to hide from life

And all of our problems, I'm gonna solve 'em

With you riding shotgun, speeding 'cause fuck the cops

Chorus

And you, you must've been looking for me

Sendin' smoke signals, pelicans circling

Burning trash out on the beach, mm

Verse 4

I buried a hatchet, it's comin' up lavender

The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor

I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall

You are anonymous, I am a concrete wall

Instrumental Outro

Previous

Scott Street

More from Stranger in the Alps (Deluxe Edition)

Full Album →

Stream This Song

Album

Stranger in the Alps (Deluxe Edition)

2018 · 2 tracks

More Albums

View all