Where are you going
Where have you been?
Leaving me glowing
Wearing so thin
Complacent running in my lungs
Chase you but it always comes
To a place I wouldn't know
I wish I knew you better than this
Wish I held you tight in my grip
So you'd never struggle out of it
Sinking in the sound of it
I'm losing it just thinking of you
Skipping like my father's old records
Slipping through the lines in your letters
And it always was so hard to see you cry
But I miss it anyway and don't know why
So why'd you have to go and play them your music?
Why'd you have to go and take back your inconsistence?
Everybody's gotta break off a piece, babe
Don't you ever get tired of their sweet persistence?
So hold me til your arms are numb
Sweetly, now, my cherry plum
I'm so sorry
Life for me's a loaded gun
I'll distract and you can run
Vision starry and fades
Facing you I still don't see
Something is escaping me
And you're dangling it in front of me
Like meat to a dog
Played rough and robbed
And it always was so hard to see you cry
But I miss it anyway and don't know why
So why'd you have to go and play them your music?
Why'd you have to go and take back your inconsistence?
Everybody's gotta break off a piece, babe
Don't you ever get tired of their sweet persistence?
Everybody feels alone in a big bed, babe
Maybe I just gotta give it some healthy distance
Don't you ever slow it down for a breath, babe?
Are you really so enveloped in your own insistence?
So hold me til your arms are numb
Sweetly, now, my cherry plum
I'm so sorry
Life for me's a loaded gun
I'll distract and you can run
Vision starry and fades