Listen to New Order T-Shirt song with lyrics from The National

New Order T-Shirt

The National23 Feb 2023

New Order T-Shirt Lyrics

New Order T-Shirt - The National

Lyrics by:Matt Berninger

Composed by:Aaron Dessner/Matt Berninger

 

How you tapped on a box

Of blue American Spirit's

At anyway cafe a little under a month

 

Before the ashes and management capital files filled the streets

 

How we wove through the cones walking home

To the place on Atlantic you shared with your hilarious sister

 

Kicking off your black flats demolished and laughing

 

I keep what I can of you

 

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

 

You in my new order T-shirt

 

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

 

When you rescued me from the customs cops in Hawaii

When I shut down the place with my Japanese novelty bomb

 

And your dad came along

 

How you had me lay down for a temperature check

 

With the cool of your hand on the back of my neck

 

When I said I think I'm finally going crazy for real

 

I keep what I can of you

 

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

 

You in my new order T-shirt

 

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

 

I flicker through

 

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

 

You in a Kentucky aquarium

 

Talking to a shark in a corner

 

You in a bath on the phone

 

Telling somebody that maybe they're better off leaving

 

Than staying in it alone

 

You in a bath on the phone

 

Telling somebody that maybe they're better off leaving

 

Than staying in it alone

 

When you cried at the beach and recovered in seconds

 

And said everything's fine but I knew that it wasn't

 

Then you stayed out of reach of me for almost a year

 

How you looked like a poster of a '70s movie

 

Standing outside at the base of your magazine skyscraper

 

Waiting for me to go drinking downtown

 

I keep what I can of you

 

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

 

You in my new order T-shirt

 

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

 

I flicker through

 

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

 

You in a Kentucky aquarium

 

Talking to a shark in a corner

 

I keep what I can of you

 

Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

 

You in my new order T-shirt

 

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

 

I flicker through

 

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

 

You in a Kentucky aquarium

 

 

Talking to a shark in a corner