I take flight on borrowed time I was once terrified of heights I say a prayer, I look down and I'm ready to die If you cross over tonight You see beyond the darkest sky You taste the blood as something wild and alive You might light up in a flash You won't hold onto a flame It's a squalid way to live but it's the rules of the game It ain't your fault It's just a shame To fall without aim I walk down east seventh street A wistful, wild depravity Iconoclastic, black and white, dusty and sweet I tell this story every time Real love don't follow a straight line It breaks your neck, it builds you a delicate shrine You might mourn all that you wasted That's just part of the haul Tangling up all your good fortune, bearing the heart of the fall You won't break it after all Look at us, man and bride And a grinding sound Faithful to a life underground And when the picture fades the years will make us calm I'll sing a song at your funeral Laid in the Mississippi gulf Or back home at Waxahatchee creek You know you got a friend in me I'm an angler married to the sea

Mississippi, I'm alone in the alley What am I supposed to be fighting for? If you build yourself up tall You can tell me what the future holds Will you settle where you stand or keep it to yourself? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go?

I stare at myself The whole world keeps turnin' I went out in the storm Thought I felt the house burnin' The kiss on my lips Starts to feel unfamiliar A part of me rots My skin all turns silver You tell a classic story Smothered underneath formality I'll portray the old shag carpet You can walk all over me If I turn to stone The whole world keeps turnin' I went out in the storm And I'm never returnin'

You got your mind set on it Losing me over the head on it You splatter your logic like I came here to see the first day of your life The speed of light fixates on you Moving through time, a failing pursuit Give off a spark, you light up the room You got your heart broken Now You unfold it when you're falling down You tell me she was boring you She keep ticking behind glass walls, good as new The speed of light's over your head Moving through night, faces you'll forget You ask a lot, she said go ahead He said go ahead I say go ahead

It's unclear now, what we intend We're alone in our own world You don't wanna be my boyfriend And I don't wanna be your girl And that, that's a relief We'll drink up our grief And pine for summer And we'll buy beer to shotgun And we'll lay in the lawn And we'll be good Now I'm laughing at my boredom At my string of failed attempts Because you think that it's important And I welcome the sentiment And we talk on the phone at night Until it's daylight And I feel clever And I hear the slow in your speech Yeah you're half asleep Say goodnight Now I've got friendships to mend I'm selfishly dispossessed You don't wanna be my boyfriend And that's probably for the best Because that, that gets messy And you will hurt me Or I'll disappear So we will drink beer all day And our guards will give way And we'll be good

In the middle of my eyes Are the blackhills of tonight And you can lean on me for now I am frozen in time And when the sun burns I'll turn red But I will feel so close to dead And I will visualize a tragedy And blame you for it I get why you would long for your past I know why you would run away so fast And I'll try to preserve the routine And I don't want to discuss what it means And you're the only one I want watching me My thoughtful consort When the stars are holding court We will be in another world Where my clarity's restored And this charming picture of Hysteria in love It could fade or wrinkle up I don't hold faith in much I know that I feel more than you do I selfishly want you here to stick to And I'll try to preserve the routine And I don't want to discuss what it means And you're the only one I want watching me