Buy It Back Next Year

I signed my name, I took the cash, I didn't say a word. Rent was 3 days late, and the landlord's knife was her. I'll get it back, I swear it, when the new songs pay. Every night I say it like a prayer I don't pray: I'll buy it back when the new record pays. Wind it up at midnight, hear 'em counting out the days. Tell myself it's temporary, tell myself it's fine. Leave the lights on, dad, I'll make it mine.