i am a bird that's in need of grounding

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i'll say i loved you years ago, tell myself you never loved me

sail on silver girl, sail on by

the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile

you are in the seat beside me, you are in my dreams at night

i should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas

silver in the sunlight, you light-up my cold heart

grab your passport and my hand

i don't know what to believe in, you don't know who I am

as my train rolls down the east coast I wonder how you keep warm

and maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up

the august sky will then bare witness

to a brand new chapter with torn up pages

this structure fell about our feet and we were free to go

what kind of equation could i possibly employ?

all the white horses are still in bed

i notice a chill in the air, september is creeping up fast

tell them this love hasn't changed me, hasn't changed me at all

what was I thinking when I said hello- what was I thinking when I let you back in?

i hope the sun shines & it's a beautiful day, & something reminds you, you wish you had stayed

we'll both forget the breeze, most of the time

it's too late to cry, too broken to move on

there you are, in my garden, clutching my coffee, calling me sugar

my fever burns me deeper than I've ever shown - to you

i hope you never forget the tapping at your window

momma once told me you are already home where you feel loved

and i've got no illusions about you and guess what? i never did

i will experiment with my fear right before her eyes

and I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe

but the truth is I've found something new

the night is gonna fall and the vultures will surround you

cuz when i look around i think this, this is good enough

your skin don't belong on my designer sheets

it's not like i think about you constantly

things start splitting at the seems now

we were caught up and lost in all of our vices

messing around with me gonna get you life

everybody feels a little crazy

so I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep

maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much,

show me where to look, tell me what will i find

as hard as you try, no, I will never be knocked down

you'll say you'd never let me fall from hopes so high

i close my eyes and see your pretty smile

when this summer time ends we will not part as friends

and I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to

you call me up again just to break me like a promise

how would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't

don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile

then i fell asleep and the city kept blinking