- "Your mom's ring in your pocket, my picture in your wallet, your heart was glass, I dropped it. Champagne problems."
- "You had a speech, you're speechless, love slipped beyond your reaches and I couldn't give a reason. Champagne problems."
- "Your Midas touch on the chevy door, november flush and your flannel cure."
- "'This dorm was once a madhouse', I made a joke 'well, it's made for me'".
- "How evergreen, our group of friends. Don't think we'll say that word again, and soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls that we once walked through."
- "I never was ready, so I watch you go."
- "'She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head', they said. But you'll find the real thing instead, she'll patch up your tapestry that I shread, and hold your hand while dancing."
- "Your mom's ring in your pocket, her picture in your wallet. You won't remember all my champagne problems."
- "Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you. Walk past, quick brush; I don't like slow motion double vision in rose blush."
- "I see me padding 'cross your wooden floors, with my Eagles t-shirt hanging from the door. At dinner parties, I call you out on your contrarian shit and the coastal town we wandered 'round had never seen a love as pure as it. And then it fades into the gray of my day old tea, cause you know it could never be."
- "My mind turns your life into folklore. I can't dare to dream about you anymore."
- "There's an ache in you, put there by the ache in me."
- "I parkеd my car right between the Methodist and thе school that used to be ours."
- "Sleep in half the day just for old times' sake; I won't ask you to wait if you don't ask me to stay."
- "So I'll go back to L.A., and the so-called friends who'll write books about me if I ever make it, and wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm faking."
- "I sit and watch you."
- "I notice everything you do or don't do. You're so much older and wiser and I wait by the door like I'm just a kid, use my best colors for your portrait, lay the table with the fancy shit, and watch you tolerate it."
- "I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it."
- "I greet you with a battle hero's welcome, I take your indiscretions all in good fun, I sit and listen; I polish plates until they gleam and glisten."
- "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life."
- "You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins, took this dagger in me and removed it, gain the weight of you then lose it?"
- "Honey, when I'm above the tree, I see this for what it is, but now I'm right down in it all the years I've given is just shit we're dividing up."
- "Showed you all of my hiding spots, I was dancing when the music stopped, and in the disbelief I can't face reinvention."
- "Haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime, leave it all behind and there is happiness."
- "When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?"
- "Across our great divide, there is a glorious sunrise dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight. Leave it all behind, and there is happiness."
- "And I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night now I get fake niceties."
- "After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that?"
- "Break my soul in two looking for you, but you're right here. If I can't relate to you anymore, then who am I related to?"
- "And if this is the long haul, how'd we get here so soon? Did I close my fist around something delicate? Did I shatter you?"
- "Lost again with no surprises, disappointments, close your eyes and it gets colder and colder when the sun goes down."
- "Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? Will you forgive my soul when you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?"
- "The mischief, the gift-wrapped suburban dreams. Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring, over and over."
- "Were you waiting at our old spot In the tree line, by the gold clock? Did I leave you hanging every single day?"
- "And when I got into the accident, the sight that flashed before me was your face, but when I walked up to the podium, I think that I forgot to say your name."
- "Sorry for not making you my centerfold."
- "Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand."
- "And the old widow goes to the stone every day, but I don't, I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living."
- "My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand."
- "I can't stop you putting roots in my dreamland. My house of stone, your ivy grows, and now I'm covered in you."
- "I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed."
- "How's one to know? I'd live and die for moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time."
- "So yeah, it's a fire, it's a goddamn blaze in the dark, and you started it. So yeah, it's a war, it's the goddamn fight of my life, and you started it."
- "And you asked me to dance, but I said, "Dancin' is a dangerous game"."
- "I've got some tricks up my sleeve. Takes one to know one."
- "Perched in the dark, telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear like it could be love."
- "Eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life, never thought I'd meet you here. It could be love, we could be the way forward, and I know now I'll pay for it."
- "And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up, and the old men that I've swindled really did believe I was the one, and the ladies lunching have their stories about when you passed through town, but that was all before I locked it down."
- "Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon. With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con."
- "Actually, I always felt I must look better in the rear view."
- "The autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber skies so much."
- "It cut deep to know you right to the bone."
- "I can feel you smoothing me over."
- "Motion capture put me in a bad light. I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone trying to find the one where I went wrong."
- "Writing letters adressed to the fire."
- "Can't remember what I used to fight for. I rewind thе tape, but all it does is pause on thе very moment all was lost."
- "Can't not think of all the cost and the things that will be lost. Oh, can we just get a pause? To be certain, we'll be tall again."
- "Whether weather be the frost or the violence of the dog days, I'm on waves, out being tossed. Is there a line that I could just go cross?"
- "And when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you. In the cracks of light, I dreamed of you. It was real enough to get me through."
- "And I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. And I couldn't be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar this pain wouldn't be for evermore."
jun 8 2021 ∞
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