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Would've Been Nice (HOPE EATER)

"Would've Been Nice" on "Hope Eater"

All vocals, instrumentation, mixing by Catlett of LLL
Lyrics:

What a sweet young girl walking by on the side of the road.
She’s picking up glass.
‘Puts it in a basket, praying for a day
she’ll be given a home of her own.

Yeah, she was the light of his life and he wouldn’t let her out
of his sight ‘till he couldn’t hold on, gagging on the barrel in his mouth,
and he had to bid goodbye. And it would have been nice if…

He stuck around for one more goddamn day.
Put the work aside and the hard drinks down.
Everybody knows he’d get his way, and the daughter lives.
And the hope remains.

Yeah, it would've been nice.
It would've been nice.
Yeah, that would've been nice.
That would've been nice.

It’s a calm, warm night.
Take a drive.
See the sights.
Have a smoke.
Now we’re throwing down shots.
Pity there’s a curfew.
You wanna come along? I’m heading to the hope eater’s house.

Damn, I’ve never seen so many guns, and it wouldn’t
seem polite to turn around, say “I gotta go home.”
Dancing with a woman with a grin. She’s pointing at a pipe
while she’s touching me softly.

She’s got jet black hair and a leather coat to match.
I’ve seen her in a GTO, tearing up tracks.
She leans in close and she tells me one thing,
“I could have been a better soul. ‘Would’ve been nice.”

We’re all built the same ‘til the day we decompose.
That’s when all the filth inside’s stainin’ your clothes.
World’s apart, but I felt so close. I wish she’d stayed.
That would’ve been nice.

The next morning I found myself in the passenger seat
of a car I recall from my dreams.
Sit up and stretch.
Light up a cig.
Look to my left.
Wouldn’t you know.

It’s the girl from the road.
I recognize her necklace.
Bits of glass on a string.
Eyeshadow makes her look like
she’s gonna put on a show.
I rub my eyes and check out
how fast we’re crossing the state.
I think I’ll just ignore that.

Hell, I didn’t see a damn thing, and I wouldn't dare to
leave her there even with a hit on my head.
Creepin’ through the bushes on the run,
and I think we’re gonna die,
so it would’ve been nice if…

She stuck around for one more goddamn day.
Lift her eyes from the floor and her foot off the gas.
Everybody wants to take her down.
Now the daughter’s dead, and the hope is gone.

That would've been nice.
It would've been nice.
Yeah, that would've been nice.
That would've nice.

She had jet black hair and a leather coat to match.
‘Saw her in a GTO, burning up grass.
She’s still at large and she’ll never be found.
To face her sin sure would’ve been nice.

She won’t think twice when she’s puttin’ on the mask.
Her father was a killer too. ‘Never got charged.
He killed her dreams and he ate her hope too.
To be her rock sure would’ve been nice.

That would've been nice.
That would've been nice.
It would've been nice.