The Listing

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V6-WILD

[INTRO — instrumental, tumbling bass, nervous sax flutters]

[HOOK — jittery, aching]
The listing, the listing (don't sign)
Four bedrooms and a lifetime, going fine
The listing, the listing (don't sign)
How do you price the wall with the height marks
(the listing)

[VERSE 1 — rapid, jittery]
Realtor's coming Thursday with her forms and her drone (her drone)
Me, Pam, and Baby Ray in the kitchen — home
We grew in — mom's in the care place now, it's time
Everybody's being real reasonable, and I'm
Trying — then Pam says the fireplace goes as-is
And I say the fireplace is where the stockings is
And Ray says the stockings is December, not the house
And Pam says don't start, and Ray says you're a mouse
Always taking her side — and it goes where it goes
Forty years of brothers in a kitchen, God knows
Then the doorbell rings early — it's the realtor, great
We put on our company voices, let her estimate
She walks through with her tablet, naming features
And every room she names starts talking back to us

[BRIDGE — piano stabs, voice bare]
We signed it — we had to — that's the job
But we took the doorframe with the heights on it
Crowbar and all — realtor never seen that
House got sold — the growing came with us

[VERSE 2 — warmer, cracked]
She says: original hardwood — I say: that's where Ray
Broke his arm in '88, sliding in his Jays
She says: finished basement — Pam says: that's the den
Where we watched the whole world end and start again
On a twelve-inch TV — she says: mature landscaping
And Baby Ray gets quiet — that's the tree he got for scraping
His knee and crying till mom planted something there
To kiss it better — forty feet of tree in the air
The realtor keeps typing — everything's a feature
And everything's a wound — and nothing they can teach you
In a seller's guide prepares you for the hall
Where the pencil marks are — four kids on the wall
She says: we'll paint over that — and we all three
Said no at the same time — first agreement all week

[OUTRO — sax flutters and fades]
(the listing...)
The tree stays
Somebody else's kids will scrape their knees on it

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[INTRO — instrumental, tumbling bass, nervous sax flutters] [HOOK — jittery, aching] The listing, the listing (don't sign) Four bedrooms and a lifetime, going fine The listing, the listing (don't sign) How do you price the wall with the height marks (the listing) [VERSE 1 — rapid, jittery] Realtor's coming Thursday with her forms and her drone (her drone) Me, Pam, and Baby Ray in the kitchen — home We grew in — mom's in the care place now, it's time Everybody's being real reasonable, and I'm Trying — then Pam says the fireplace goes as-is And I say the fireplace is where the stockings is And Ray says the stockings is December, not the house And Pam says don't start, and Ray says you're a mouse Always taking her side — and it goes where it goes Forty years of brothers in a kitchen, God knows Then the doorbell rings early — it's the realtor, great We put on our company voices, let her estimate She walks through with her tablet, naming features And every room she names starts talking back to us [BRIDGE — piano stabs, voice bare] We signed it — we had to — that's the job But we took the doorframe with the heights on it Crowbar and all — realtor never seen that House got sold — the growing came with us [HOOK — jittery, aching] The listing, the listing (don't sign) Four bedrooms and a lifetime, going fine The listing, the listing (don't sign) How do you price the wall with the height marks (the listing) [VERSE 2 — warmer, cracked] She says: original hardwood — I say: that's where Ray Broke his arm in '88, sliding in his Jays She says: finished basement — Pam says: that's the den Where we watched the whole world end and start again On a twelve-inch TV — she says: mature landscaping And Baby Ray gets quiet — that's the tree he got for scraping His knee and crying till mom planted something there To kiss it better — forty feet of tree in the air The realtor keeps typing — everything's a feature And everything's a wound — and nothing they can teach you In a seller's guide prepares you for the hall Where the pencil marks are — four kids on the wall She says: we'll paint over that — and we all three Said no at the same time — first agreement all week [OUTRO — sax flutters and fades] (the listing...) The tree stays Somebody else's kids will scrape their knees on it

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