Straight White Teeth

Bring down all the lights let me hold you close
I'm full of loose ends will you be my rope
Waited my whole life and now I know

My love won't budge
My love won't fade after the preview
We only get one life
I won't live mine without you

Calm or stormy I'll stay solid
When you're distant I'll keep falling
My love will follow through

I thought I was done
But you never are
There's always a chance
In a beating heart
I'll give you my best
I think that's a start

My love won't budge
My love won't fade after the preview
We only get one life
I won't live mine without you

Calm or stormy I'll stay solid
When you're distant I'll keep falling
My love will follow through

Pullover here
Let’s get some rest
A big day ahead of us
Your stage work lacks depth

My child
Don’t make a sound
It’s time to sleep now

I gave it all to you

Heart like a rock
Head like the sky
With cloudbursts of chemicals
Improving your life

My girl
Is a fortress so proud
And she’s not coming out

I gave it all to you

One by one I’ve been losing touch
Long legs bend at the knee
How your eyes betray what you think of me
They’re telling me that I should leave

My god
Lives high
In soul and mind
It gives me something real
And something to believe

Burdens buzz like a guitar string
I crumble under the weight
I can’t come back there’s no one to confide in
I don’t know where I’m meant to be

My god
My fairytale
Hums low
In my mind
So give me something real
And something to believe

Even when I try to hide
There’s a door straight to my mind
You’re gone but still reside

Dim light burning in the sky
I know now that it’s over
I felt you drifting away from me

In truth I'm braver than
You ever gave me credit
I’m living better than we could be

Holy is the bitter end
It’s better now not to pretend
Honey I am living up
It’s better without you

The night is singing our names
But it calls us something different
Tells us truths we cannot believe

And in the dark we lose ourselves
Tie things up put them on the shelf
But we had good love, didn’t we

Holy is the bitter end
It’s better now not to pretend
Honey I am living up
And it’s better without you

I’ll say this nice
Tell it in a letter
Stamp and mail it out
We did our best
Couldn’t have done better
I think we should be proud

But she held me down
When I was living up
Back and forth but never together
So I’ll stand up and walk out
And make my way alone for now

Holy as a ghost
Heavy as a feather
Pure as the driven snow
But watch your back
It’s heartbreak weather
I think it’s time you go

My mind’s made up
My mind’s made up
We keep doing this but nothing’s getting better
So I’ll stand up and walk out
And make my way alone for now

They say you'll find
Yours in time
But I’m not sure
What’s yours and what’s mine

I need to
Waste these precious days
Till the pain subsides

In winter
I sit by the old wood stove
And let the wet clothes dry

Tell me if you ever meant it
My path was straight but then you bent it

You’re my light and I am your shadow
Cut glass inside your window
This ghost won’t ever come back
My light

We’re with you
The corporate message shines
In the young man’s eyes

Everything I’ve learned was wrong
But I’m getting close to knowing something right

Tell me what is your intention
To build these lives and just upend them

You’re my light and I am your shadow
Cut glass inside your window
This ghost won’t ever come back
My light

You broke out from April 'till Autumn
Sinned sins but quickly forget them
Go now and don’t ever come back
My light

Bell ringing aloud
But I’ll never get myself out
It’s only a lifetime we can wait
Drown out the sound until it’s too late
But don’t be proud

Bull hunting you down
You hide in the alleys but it finds you out
Covered in crimson head to toe
You live for the chase but you act like you don’t

So don’t be proud
Don’t be proud

You got lost
In that life
So grit your teeth
And twist the knife
Or let it slide

Bell ringing aloud

They line us up like we’re bespoke
Snatch up real estate and generate
I used to think I wouldn’t live very long
But now I fear my time

Can we make a bet?
If we don’t hurry up and get out
They’re gonna burst right through the door
And put our lives up to the lens

Make me humble, make me true
Let me live right there with you
If we love we’ll never die

Make me fierce but keep me soft
I don’t wanna change that much
If we love we’ll never die

Meet at dawn and take an oath
That you’ll give me pain that I can tolerate
I wish we wouldn’t have to give good up
For the vague we once maligned

If we made our beds, what good does it do to rest?
And let our sleeping selves destroy
All the work that we have done

Make me humble, make me true
Let me live right there with you
If we love we’ll never die

Make me fierce but keep me soft
I don’t wanna change that much
If we love we’ll never die

Light gets shattered in the rain
But refracts in countless ways
I see it now

When I was born
I had so much left to do
Like a fire burning through the brush

Make me humble, make me true
Let me live right there with you
If we love we’ll never die

Bring down all the lights let me hold you close
I'm full of loose ends will you be my rope
Waited my whole life and now I know

My love won't budge
My love won't fade after the preview
We only get one life
I won't live mine without you

Calm or stormy I'll stay solid
When you're distant I'll keep falling
My love will follow through

I thought I was done
But you never are
There's always a chance
In a beating heart
I'll give you my best
I think that's a start

My love won't budge
My love won't fade after the preview
We only get one life
I won't live mine without you

Calm or stormy I'll stay solid
When you're distant I'll keep falling
My love will follow through

Let me off the hook
I wanna run wild
Get tangled in the sheets
With a lover
That isn’t you

‘Cause I was on my own
When you were by my side
So there’s no difference now
Except there’s nothing to hide

Let me go on without you
Let me go on

Oh how the night gives way to the dawn
We were the dew on the morning lawn
Our love was beautiful but now it’s gone

There’s no coming back
After you showed me who you are
We can’t ever be
What we were
But it wasn’t real
You were just playing a part
To keep from being alone
And there’s no hiding now
Since you retired the role

Let me go on without you
Let me go on

Oh how the night gives way to the dawn
We were the dew on the morning lawn
Our love was beautiful but now it’s gone

My love
Never had a hold on me
But when she finally slipped away
She left me bound

I grip tight
To the mansion banister
Drunker than a forest fire
On a lonely Father’s Day

We can be bad and good together
We can love each other loud
I’m lighter than a feather
I’ll hardly make a sound
I’ll go with you even if it’s down

Sweetheart
Don’t listen to the words I say
Only watch what I do
And you will know me well

Wise up
This is a fight to the death
And none of us will leave alive
So we might as well be brave

We can be bad and good together
We can love each other loud
I’m lighter than a feather
I’ll hardly make a sound
I’ll go with you even if it’s down

Can’t dance with a broken leg
But I do it anyway
And I cut the rug apart
With my sweetheart
With my sweetheart
With my sweetheart

I think it’s time you go