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by Darren Hanlon


Darren Hanlon - Couch Surfing






Well I haven't paid rent in a month or more
 	
I'm couch surfing

And I don't have a key cause I don't have a door
 	
I'm couch surfing

I'm not taking calls
I'm between houses


Of my material possessions I've lost track
 	
I didn't need them

Everything I need fits in my backpack
 	
I call it freedom
				
A pair of jeans some shirts and a guitar lead
				
A toothbrush, socks and a paperback reader
        	           
All the rest is what's hanging off of me


And I'm not answering questions
I'm between houses

				     
Outside the night is cold and stormy
 				     
And you blew up the air mattress for me
			
We'll talk all night like an open book
			
And I'll sleep on every breath you took
        	           
Before you leave I'll sneak a look up at you
	

But there's an old saying that could bare retelling
		
When you're couch surfing:

'the guest should leave before the fish starts smelling'
		
When your couch surfing
		
It's romantically existential
		
To reduce your life to the bare essential
        	           
All that which is inconsequential guides me

		
But this whole theory really depends
		
On weather or not you've got good friends
		
And all this weightlessness the philosopher preach
		
Reduces you to societies leach
		
But tonight i've landed on my feet
		
I'm still one friend away from the bum on the street
		
And i've used up all my good will vouchers
		
On every single friend with couches
		
It won't be long before they'll ask me to leave
		
It's time i cut myself some keys
					 	
Give me a pen i'll sign a lease and go get me a home


Thats the whole song. HY.