Lyrics

[Intro] Say it all, you can say it all now Say it all, say it all now [Verse 1] Mattress on the basement floor, black sheets hung in place of doors, sun breaks through the garden gutter windows and I stay sick all winter Light falls on the dormant drums, the morning never fully comes, the days are arranged, so there's no way to locate the center We stay asleep 'til between two and three in that frozen shrine Waking upset with our hanging regret to the midday chimes You leave in a hurry, your roommate will worry, you'll call sometime An unfinished lyric gets rushed without thought in its final line [Refrain] I know we were there together, but there, there was no shared experience I know we were all together, but we had to be different people then Then Then Then [Verse 2] Stillness in the glassy air, artifacts are everywhere, whose dirty shirt are you wearing and did they sleep over? Tension in the temperature, you tell me not to mention her and to cover my cough before something gets caught, you don't want this degree of exposure Mold starts to show as it steadily grows over all ripe things And the smell of wet wool keeps you uncomfortable through an uptight spring While the yellow bulbs bloom, there's a celibate room where your laughter rings In the blissful beforement that gives way to tormented aftering Now I dream about stores that aren't there anymore and of misplaced faces The outdated colors of years disappeared into grayscale stasis I loved you, but only in the context of loneliness, trite and baseless In the cowardly shelter of memory and everything time erases [Bridge] So much in the name of communication But I wasn't listening I just liked talking then A selfish voice without a destination Absorbed in the gesture But bored with connection We rode along together in a one-speed bicycle construct Rendered you anonymous I paraphrased you 'til you matched my flat, unblinking vision Collapsed who you were until you fit in my picture [Refrain] I know, I thought I was so convincing, but I, I wasn't lovesick like I said I know we were there together, but I, I was a different person then I know I know I know I know [Instrumental Break] [Outro] Isn't there a place? Everything erased Try to find a way