willow

• i'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night / rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife
• lost in your current like a priceless wine
• wreck my plans
• life was a willow and it bent right to your wind

champagne problems

• bustling crowds or silent sleepers / you're not sure which is worse
• because i, dropped your hand while dancing / left you out there standing / crestfallen on the landing / champagne problems
• your sister splashed out on the bottle / now no one's celebrating
• dom perignon, you brought it / no crowd of friends applauded / your hometown skeptics called it / champagne problems
• sometimes you just don't know the answer / 'til someone's on their knees and asks you
• "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 shred

gold rush

• eyes like sinking ships on waters / so inviting, i almost jump in
• but i don't like a gold rush, gold rush / i don't like anticipating my face in a red flush
• walk past, quick brush / i don't like slow motion, double vision in rose blush / i don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush
• and the coastal town we wandered 'round had never seen a love as pure as it
• and then it fades into the grey of my day-old tea / cause it could never be

'tis the damn season

• it's the kind of cold, fogs up windshield glass / but i felt it when i passed you
• but if it's all the same to you, it's the same to me
• so we can call it even / you can call me babe for the weekend / 'tis the damn season, write this down
• and the road not taken looks real good now / and it always leads to you in my hometown
• the holidays linger like bad perfume
• time flies, messy as the mud on your truck tires
• we could just ride around
• i won't ask you to wait, if you don't ask me to stay
• and wonder about the only soul, who could tell which smiles i'm faking / and the heart i know i'm breaking is my own / to leave the warmest bed, i've ever known
• and i'll be yours for the weekend / 'tis the damn season

tolerate it

• use my best colors for your portrait
• 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 made you my temple, my mural, my sky / now i'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life / drawing hearts in the byline
• gain the weight of you, then lose it / believe me i could do it

no body, no crime

• she says, "that ain't my merlot on his mouth" / "that ain't my jewelry on our joint account"
• and i've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene
• no, no body, no crime / i wasn't letting up until the day he died

happiness

• honey when i'm above the trees, 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
• there'll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you / both of these things can be true, there is happiness
• beyond the terror in the nightfall
• haunted by the look in my eyes, that would've loved you for a lifetime
• when did all our lessons start to look like weapons
• there'll be happiness after me, but there was happiness because of me / both of these things i believe, there is happiness
• there is a glorious sunrise / dappled with the flickers of light, from the dress i wore at midnight
• no one teaches you what to do, when a good man hurts you / and you know you hurt him too

dorothea

• this place is the same as it ever was / but you don't like it that way
• the stars in your eyes shined brighter in tupelo
• and if you're ever tired of being known for who you know, you know, you'll always know me
• you're a queen, selling dreams, selling makeup and magazines / from you i'd buy anything