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it's sitting by the overcoat
the second shelf, the note she wrote
that i can't bring myself to throw away
and also, reach she said for
no one else but you
'cause you won't turn away
when someone else is gone
i'm sorry about the attitude
i need to give when i'm with you
but no one else
would take this shit from me
and i'm so terrified of no one else
but me
i'm here all the time
so, i won't go away
it's me, yeah
i can't get myself to go away
it's me, well
i can't get myself to go away
oh god, i shouldn't feel this way
reach down your hand
in your pocket
pull out some hope for me
it's been a long day, always
ain't that right
and no lord your hand
won't stop it
just keep you trembling
it's been a long day, always
ain't that right
well, i'm surprised that
you'd believe in anything
that comes from me
i didn't hear from you
or from someone else
and you're so set in life.
--
i have, i have
you breathing down my neck
breathing down my neck
i don't, don't know
what you could
possibly expect
under this condition
so, i'll wait, i'll wait
for the ambulance to come
ambulance to come
pick us up off the floor
what did you
possibly expect
under this condition
so, slow down
this night's a perfect shade of
dark blue, dark blue
have you ever been alone in a crowded room
when i'm here with you
i said the world could be burning
burning down
have you ever been alone in a croweded room
well, i'm here with you
i said the world could be burning
'til there's nothing but dark blue
just dark blue
this flood, this flood
is slowly rising up
swallowing the ground beneath
my feet
tell me how anybody thinks
under this condition
so, i'll swim, i'll swim
as the water rises up
sun is sinking down
and now all i can see
are the planets in a row
suggesting it's best that i
slow down
this night's a perfect shade of
dark blue, dark blue
have you ever been alone in a crowded room
when i'm here with you
i said the world could be burning
burning down
have you ever been alone in a croweded room
well, i'm here with you
i said the world could be burning
'til there's nothing but dark blue
just dark blue.
--
sometimes i think this cycle never ends
we slide from top to bottom
then we turn and climb again
and it seems by the time
that i have figured what it's worth
the squeaking of our skin
against the steel has gotten worse
but if i move my place in line, i'll lose
and i have waited
the anticipation's got me glued
i am waiting for something to go wrong
i am waiting for familiar resolve
sometimes it seems that i don't have
the skills to recollect
the twists and turns of plots that turned
us from lovers to friends
i'm thinking i should take that volume
back up off the shelf
and crack it's weary spine
and read to help remind myself
but if i move my place in line, i'll lose
and i have waited
the anticipation's got me glued
i am waiting for something to go wrong
i am waiting for familiar resolve
i am waiting for another repeat
another diet fed by crippling defeat
and i am waiting for that sense of relief
i am waiting for you to flee the scene
as if you held in your hand a smoking gun
and on the floor lay the one
you said you loved
and it's strange
they're all basically the same
so, i don't ask names anymore
sometimes i think this cycle never ends
we slide from top to bottom
then we turn and climb again
and it seems by the time i have figured
what it's worth
the squeaking of our skin against the steel
has gotten worse
the squeaking of our skin against the steel
has gotten worse
the squeaking of our skin against the steel
has gotten worse.
--
you cut me down a tree
and pulled it back to me
and that's what made me see
where i was going
you put me on a shelf
and kept me for yourself
i could only blame myself
you could only blame me
and i could write a song
a hundred miles long
well, that's where i belong
and you belong with me
and i could write it down
and spread it all around
get lost, and then get found
or swallowed in the sea
you put me on a line
and hung me out to dry
and darling, that's when i
decide to go to sea
you cut me down to size
and opened up my eyes
made me realize
what i could not see
and i could write a book
the one they'll say that shook
the world and then it took
it took it back from me
and i could write it down
and spread it all around
get lost, and then get found
and you'll come back to me
not swallowed in the sea
and i could write a song
a hundred miles long
well, that's where i belong
and you belong with me
the streets you're walking on
a thousand houses long
well, that's where i belong
and you belong with me
oh, what good is it to live
with nothing left to give
forget, but not forgive
not loving all you see
all the streets you're walking on
a thousand houses long
well, that's where i belong
and you belong with me
not swallowed in the sea
you belong with me
not swallowed in the sea
yeah, you belong with me
not swallowed in the sea.