Inauguration Day

Crawling on a crowd of people
Fearless and a little wild
I admire your conviction
And I think you’ve got good style
I’ll be glad we’re friends
When all of this bullshit ends
And all the troughs have crested
I just hope you don’t get arrested
While you were back home preparing
I slept in your empty room
Looked at all your scraps of paper
Didn’t read them though I wanted to
It’s weird there without you
I’d never slept the whole night through but restless sleep is boring
And I can’t sleep now without your snoring
You give yourself to everybody
It’s hard to share but I’ll pretend
And if I told you that I loved you
I meant as my best good friend
But I’ll be glad when you’re here
It’s hard to think through all the fear
Of rubber bullets flying
You can’t smash the state if you’re dying