I'm tired of being anxious, broken, choking on my tears I let the same old problems steal away my years 'Cause I'm somebody's dolly when a lover's near But tend to crumble slowly when they disappear Like nothing matters after natural disaster And I wonder, where's my happy ever after? I'm obsessed, depressed, can't seem to find no closure What's the point in getting dressed if the two of us are ovеr? 'Cause he's not the problеm The problem is you think You're only viable for love when someone makes you feel complete You're a diamond Wish you could see you the way I see You can't blossom if you keep growing gardens out of weeds I'm tired of giving, giving, living like a lady In distress, but I don't need someone to save me Not your Polly Pocket in your lover's locket You can't hold me down, I'm a bursting bottle rocket If you want to know me, start by trying to show me That you're worthy, baby, prove that you can earn me 'Cause I'm sick of playing games, let's leave puzzles on the top shelf Begging a boy to come for help when I could just learn to love myself 'Cause he's not the problem The problem is you think You're only viable for love when someone makes you feel complete You're a diamond Wish you could see you the way I see You can't blossom if you keep growing gardens out of weeds Lie awake, I ruminate all the friction that I've been feeling 'Cause they never felt like healing And you keep taking another piece of me Not your problem, not my problem You keep taking another piece of me Not your problem, not my problem You keep taking another piece of me (you keep taking) Not your problem, not my problem (not my problem) You keep taking another piece of me (you keep taking) Not your problem, not my problem (not my problem) You keep taking another piece of me (you keep taking) Not your problem, not my problem (not my problem) You keep taking another piece of me (you keep taking) Not your problem, not my problem (not my problem)

It's coming on the end of August Another summer's promise almost gone And though I heard some wise man say That every dog will have his day He never mentioned that these dog days get so long I don't know when I realized the dream was over Well, there was no particular hour, no given day You know it didn't go down in flame There was no final scene, no frozen frame I just watched it slowly fade away I've been waiting in the weeds Waiting for my time to come around again And hope is floating on the breeze Carrying my soul high up above the ground And I've been keeping to myself Knowing that the seasons are slowly changing Even though you're with somebody else He'll never love you like I do I've been biding time with the crows and sparrows While peacocks prance and strut upon the stage If finding love is just a dance Proximity and chance You will excuse me if I skip the masquerade And I've been waiting in the weeds Waiting for the dust to settle down along the Back roads running through the fields Lying on the outskirts of this lonesome town And I imagine sunlight in your hair You're at the county fair You're holding hands and laughing And now the Ferris wheel has stopped You're swinging on the top suspended there with him And he's the darling of the chic The flavor of the week is melting Down your pretty summer dress Baby, what a mess you're making I've been stumbling through some dark places Now I'm following the plow I know I've fallen out of your good graces It's alright now I've been waiting in the weeds Waiting for the summer rain to fall upon the Wild birds scattering the seeds Answering the calling of the tide's eternal tune The phases of the moon, the chambers of the heart The ebb and dart of small gray spiders spinning in the dark In spite of all the times the web is torn apart And I've been waiting in the weeds (waiting in the weeds) Waiting for the time to come around again And hope is floating on the breeze (floating on the breeze) Carrying my soul high up above the ground And I've been keeping to myself (keeping to myself) Knowing that the seasons are slowly changing Even though you're with somebody else (with somebody else) He'll never love you like I do

Could have filled a garden with all the flowers that you gave me But none of them were ours You know the problem with history, it keeps coming back like weed And when nothing feels enough At least you taught me how to love, how to love, love But he keeps growing back like weeds Baby, just open your eyes to see, he's growing from inside me And I just don't know what I can do, I thought I cut him at the root Like weeds, like weeds Like weeds, yeah, yeah I miss all of my exes, they're the only ones that know me And God knows that sex is a way to feel a bit, a little bit less lonely Yeah, I tried to keep it covered up Yeah, I thought I cut him at the root but now I think my time is up Cause he keeps growing back like weeds Baby, just open your eyes to see, he's growing from inside me And I just don't know what I can do, I thought I cut him at the root Like weeds, like weeds Like weeds, yeah, yeah Like weeds, like weeds Like weeds, yeah, yeah, yeah Baby, baby, baby, baby Like weeds, like weeds Like weeds, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah-eah-eah, yeah-eah-eah, eh-eh-eh, eh-eh-eh Yeah-eah-eah, yeah-eah-eah, eh-eh-eh, eh-eh-eh Eh-eh-eh Baby, baby, baby, baby

If tomorrow never shows I want you all to know That I loved you all, you're beautiful And I had myself a ball I've wasted so much precious time Been skating along these fine lines Now these weeds have grown where the sun once shown And my life has passed me by And my life has passed me by And I don't know why I keep searching for something that I never found While these weeds get deeper as I turn around And time grows older and I've grown colder So long has passed that I forgot to count These weeds have grown where the sun once shown And I can feel it Today I cut off all the ties Been led blind for all this time But somewhere in between the lies Are the hearts and minds of those who tried And although I've heard your lies... This space between us...

In this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me You're just a rock to me, you're just a rock to me And in this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me And in this life like weeds, in this life like weeds I could have told you all that I love you And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from I could have told you all that I love you And in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you'll die I could have told you all that I love you And on the day that you die, you'll see the people you've met I could have told you all that I love you And in the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been I wish I could have told you all In this life like weeds, in this life like weeds Eyes need us to see, hearts need us to bleed In this life like weeds, you're a rock to me I know where you're from, but where do you belong? In this life like weeds, you're the dirt I'll breathe In this life like weeds, you're a rock to me In this life like weeds, in this life like weeds I know where you're from, but where do you belong? In this life like weeds, eyes need us to see Hearts need us to bleed in this life like weeds In this life like weeds, you're the dirt I'll breathe All this talking all the time and the air fills up, up Up until there's nothing left to breathe And you think you feel most everything And we know that our hearts are just made out of strings to be pulled Strings to be pulled So you think you've figured out everything But we know that our minds are just made out of strings to be pulled Strings to be pulled All this talking all the time and the air fills up, up Up until there's nothing left to breathe Up until there's nothing left to speak Up into the better parts of space

Pile of postcards across the front yard All of 'em worried you didn't need the same It's gettin cold We're gettin older If I sound hurried, I ain't running away I'm only chasing The paper on the pavement, playing country tunes Bracing, bracing for the pain I don't see coming soon Tell me about your day while I lay on top of you Or sit across from you I'm hard to watch I know I lost my touch Cut my hair and then it never grew Took a Greyhound, then I was southbound Georgia on my mind right next to you Round New Jersey I was getting wordy I'll send a bird to sing "I love you, too" Wait a week some You know I'll see you, hon But I better get there before these papers do It's always raining Like the song we love that's double both our ages Changing like the seasons and their reasons not for staying long Like the wind, and the tide Baby you and I can meet in Macon Get to shakin Our records playin

You said "it's cold, but we need the seasons" Sing an old song, watch me drive by You said "stay gold" Well I'm gonna show you I can Sitting here alone going nowhere fast Looking through my phone Wondering why the good things feel sad Digging up old bones for what I had Oh oh Oh oh Old bones Old bones We come so close Having bad thoughts But I'm still believing By the first frost, I will know That you're a paradox And I'm just a whisper of way back when And I feel like a ghost in a party hat How am I to hold the days when they're fading so fast You get up just to go Now you can't come back Oh oh Oh oh Old bones Old bones We come so close It comes And goes We come so close Old bones Old bones We come so close It comes And goes We come so close

I'm alone for the week so I'll go for a walk Past community libraries and people with gardens Planting roots and pulling up their weeds Feeling tied the past, water towers on hills Sneaking up to the top when we had time to kill We always wondered if Carole still loves Bill Carry all my old friends In a heart-shaped locket Keep em tied around my neck Even though they hold me back and I'm blowing kisses Driving down dead ends Keep your photo on the fridge Knowing I won't talk to you again Counting minutes and hours, till I'm fully obsessed Never have enough time for my scarcity complex Every moment feels gone before it leaves me Purple houses, no one's home Fancy parties, empty hosts Walking home in the pouring rain Cowboy boots made me miss my train Carry all my old friends In a heart-shaped locket Keep em tied around my neck Even though they hold me back, and I'm blowing kisses Like I'm not haunted Every moment that I miss Even ones I wish I could forget Carry all my old friends In a heart-shaped locket Keep em tied around my neck Even though they hold me back, and Tying up my loose ends Into perfect ribbons Growing older is a gift Letting go is just a part of it The hard part is that time, it passes The best part is that time, it passes The hard part is it never lasts But the best part is just that you had it The hard part is it never lasts But the best part is just that you had it

Too many girls from parties know too much about my life Maybe I should've just told you If I call you what are you gonna do Just stare until my face fades away Or would you pick up and be faced with what you walked away from You're always a couple days late aren't ya Told my friends at breakfast I can't do this anymore But by nine I'm on my way over Get your keys before I change my mind I've already changed it five times today By the time I'm there I forget my name Too many girls from parties know too much about my life Maybe I should've just told you But I'm far gone now the crowd sounds prettier singing your name I'm better off, you don't seem better off Larger than life you're skipping down the stairs Arms wide you tell the door she's with me I end up in your room before I can change my mind about it Looking back I looked my age Screaming along to "This Must Be The Place" But now too many girls from parties know too much about that night Maybe I should've just told you But I'm far gone now the crowd sounds prettier singing your name I'm better off, you don't seem better off Oh I couldn't make it Heard it was a rager But I don't think I could take it To talk to you like strangers If I call you what would you do? Just stare because you know you're far too late

Told me you wanted to change your hair Never see you really wanna be anywhere Driving down the neighborhood streets Never taking your eyes off me You hold my hand Told me you wanted to change your hair And disappear I don't need you to call And tell me how I probably should've felt Though I knew you'd fall The end of your world shouldn't be my fault Lowercase, never bracing for the fall My heart, wore it on my sleeves or on my wall Beaten down but I'm not broken Try to speak and nearly choke I'm breathing in and out Lowercase, you can stay up late, but don't fall in love That'll never be enough I don't need you to call And tell me how I probably should've felt Though I knew you'd fall The end of your world shouldn't be my fault I hope you find what you're looking for