The Last Place I Saw You Alive

The Last Place I Saw You Alive
Album	Getting Into Knives
Released	October 23, 2020
Length	4:40
Previous Track	"Pez Dorado"
Next Track	"Bell Swamp Connection"

The Last Place I Saw You Alive is the seventh song on the album Getting Into Knives. It also appears as the 11th song on the 2021 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 and 4.

Lyrics

I'm not thinking of you
When I swing left onto Gordon Avenue
It's just the way the traffic veers
Haven't driven down these streets in years 

But then I pass the last place I saw you alive

I walk the narrow path these days
I can't see going back to my old ways
Call to mind sometimes that bloody, stinking mess
Us worms turn into butterflies I guess

But then I pass the last place I saw you alive 

It's changed since you were here, or else it hasn't 
It was special, it was deadly, 
It was ours and then it wasn't

It's only now and then you come to mind 
There's a trillion things you left behind 
It's just the way the math works out 
Nothing really to get worked up about 

But then I pass the last place I saw you alive

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "This is an upbeat little number." -- 2021-04-18 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC

Things Referenced in this Song

• The title may be a reference to the song "The Last Place I Saw Richard" by Joni Mitchell, whom John Darnielle has called "one of the great geniuses of our age."

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2021-04-18 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC

Videos of this Song

• The Durham Sessions