Eustace Video (MV)

Did I ever tell you about the football player?
Her name was Eustace
Told me "Chelsea I think your useless"
Kissed her shoulder
She brooded and smoldered
I proved my point
Now that I'm older
Finally sent the money I owed her
She never wrote back
Instead heard from her father
Went beneath the waves to pull her child from a riptide
She never reemerged
And her son is paralyzed
Since I moved away
She's a household name
Smiles missed and misremembered
Like winding, curving roads carved into sprawl
Sleepy, dreary neighborhoods, drowsiest at dawn.
The slightest shard, buried somewhere
Plymmouth in the hedges, tires entrenched in the dirt
Glinting and glaring a silver strand trapped beneath the earth.
Skee balls, claw machines, feeding coins
Spewing tickets, like a drunk on the docks paranoid
Divorced from any kind of reason or choice.
Hesitant but happy to be here
Further estranged than I have ever been
Further still until a great yawn exhausts and flees the skin.
Margaret they flooded our basement
With cement, support beams, rebar and wet dreams
Backstreets, names and faces
That I long to describe with some semblance of clarity
Guess you moved
Like I knew you would
Did you ever write me letters
Of fondness and gentle words
Guess you moved
Like I knew you would
Margaret
Did you finish
"Let's be in Hollywood"?
Guess you moved
Like I knew you would
If it's any comfort Margaret
I never did make it to Hollywood