Rosa & Reseda Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties

[Verse 1]
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room
In the plastic patio chairs that the last tenant left
I came to Reseda for the cheap rent and the distant listless gloom
I answered a Craigslist ad for a roommate, Rosa was it

[Chorus]
She waits tables on the weekdays
Picks up any shift she can
I paint houses that I can't afford to live in
Scraping by with what we've got to pay the rent

[Verse 2]
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room
And I play her the songs that I wrote last year when things got dim
And her boyfriend's a real great guy
He works down at the Jiffy Lube
They teach me Spanish at night
We eat what she takes from her shift

[Bridge]
They both think that I can be something if I try
They come out to all the open mics
He's looking around to help me find a van that I could buy

[Chorus]
She waits tables on the weekdays
Picks up any shift she can
I paint houses that I can't afford to live in
Scraping by with what we've got to pay the rent