[dashboard confessional]

album: the swiss army romance (2000)
label: fiddler records

song: screaming infidelities
i'm missing your bed
i never sleep
avoiding the spots
where we'd have to speak
and this bottle of beast is taking me home
i'm cuddling close to blankets and sheets
you're not alone and you're not discreet
you make sure i know who's taking you home
i'm reading your note over again
there's not a word that i comprehend
except when you signed it "i will love you always and forever"

as for now i'm gonna hear the saddest songs
and sit alone and wonder how you're making out
but as for me i wish that i was anywhere with anyone making out

i'm missing your laugh
how did it break?
and when did your eyes begin to look fake?
i hope you're as happy as you're pretending
i'm missing you bed
i never sleep
avoiding the spots where we'd have to speak
and this bottle of beast is taking me home

as for now i'm gonna hear the saddest songs
and sit alone and wonder how you're making out
but as for me i wish that i was anywhere with anyone making out

your hair
it's everywhere
screaming infidelities
taking its wear



song: the sharp hint of new tears
on the way home
this car hears my confessions
i think tonight i'll take the long way
this weather
the wind outside is biting
it has left me feeling tired and exposed
you've been asking me to bleed
it seems these kinds of questions
come too easy to you now
your lack of shame comes naturally
i should not be suprised
i should have seen it sooner

you expect me to apologize for things that you've done wrong
while you're inciting others
you're owning up to nothing and i wish that i was gone
because you're not going anywhere

this damp air
is fighting my defroster
my sighs they ring victorious and fog this tinted glass
it's clouded and so is my head
the hint of these new tears are sharp
i try to hold them back
it's useless
i am useless against them
they are beating me with ease

on the way home
this car hears my confessions
i think tonight i'll take the long way



song: living in your letters
i'm always assuming the worst
but you're going on none the less
and there's nothing to cushion your heart led fall
letters from further away
keep pulling me close to home
and there's something to cushion my callous sighs
and i know that you hope for longer good-byes
embracing for forever and falling in your eyes.

pouring over photographs
i'm living in your letters
breathe deeply from this envelope
it smells like you and i can't be
without that scent it's filling me
with all you mean to me

continually failing these trials
but you stand by me nonetheless
and you won't let me sink though I'm beggin you
phone calls from further away
and messages on my machine
but i don't ever tell you this distance seems terrible
there is no need to test my heart
with useless space
these roads go on forever and so do you and i

so i'll hit the pavement
it's gotta be better than waiting
and pushing you far away cause i'm scared
so i'll take my chances and head on my way up there
cause turning to you is like falling in love when you're ten



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