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I turn over your heart
Which moves, and pebbles in my palm
Still warm from my pocket
I toss it across the waves

You skip and ripple out
Like a dream, no longer clear
And when I say I need you
You sink, and disappear
There's a force inside, that buries me alive

Welcome to your new life
Dancing in the light that slips through the blinds
Welcome to your new life
Is it the paradise, baby, you hoped you'd find?

I fumble through the hurt
On a dusty and out of tune piano
Sharpen my teeth along
The ridges of your words

I climb out of my mind
And into a disheveled bed
I tangle in the sheets
As I reach for you, you say
"To leave me is impossible, and I'd bury you in time"

Welcome to your new life
Dancing in the light that slips through the blinds
Welcome to your new life
Is it the paradise, baby, you hoped you'd find?
Dancing in light
Is it the paradise you hoped you'd

Your face
The one that turned away
Hiding in your fingers
Rising to a fever when summer came
The sky was painted grey
You went back to college
Everyday apologising
You forgot my birthday
And I forgot to say

"I'm not sorry that I met you"
In an American machine
You're a feminist dream
And when the codeine kills the feeling
I let it all wash away
In the north-west rain
And I'll just keep
Breathing
And I'll keep
Breathing

I remember when
We were so oblivious
Talked about our children, their first names
All sounded the same
What a reckless daydream
The day you chose to leave here you wore black
And like a silent movie
No one heard the scream

"I'm not sorry that I met you"
In an American machine
You're a feminist dream
And when the codeine kills the feeling
I let it all wash away
In the north-west rain
And I'll just keep
Breathing
And I'll keep
Breathing

When you crossed my mind
The road just keeps on winding
Your memory starts to fade
The one that walked away

"I'm not sorry that I met you"
In an American machine
You're a feminist dream
And when the codeine kills the feeling
I let it all wash away
In the north-west rain
And I'll just keep
Breathing
And I'll keep
Breathing
I'm not sorry that I met you

It could have been a miscommunication
A tequila holiday
She said arachnids are always chasing
Her happiness away

An impressionable young Madonna
Ziggy Stardust around her eyes
I confessed with an Oxford comma
Wrote a devil's lullaby

Would you be my best friend, lover?
Would you be my summer valentine?
Think I knew you in a past life, momma
Would you even miss me if I died?
Would you miss me if I died?

There she is
A victim of her circumstances
Stuck in between
Her broken body and a fantasy

And will she wake again
Covered in pollution
Like flowers in December cold with fear
She always finds a way to disappear
And I'll go on
Alone

There she is
Revising her heart's resolution
Questioning it all
Dreamless in a hospital

And will we meet again
Dream a new prescription
The flowers in December bloom each spring
I hope from time to time that she remembers me

Don't give up on me, baby
Remember us
We've waited oh, so long
And I saved for you
A place in my heart
Where only you belong

Don't go and change for me now
Be your mother's child
Even as you're falling apart
I'd take for you
Each bullet life shoots
To keep you as you are

And with my last breath
I'd say to you
In the flashing red and blue
You're more beautiful each day you grow older
You're more beautiful each day you get through
You're more beautiful each day you grow older
And I wanted to grow old with you

Don't disappear
Don't twist the knife
I know we both could atone
And I'd bleed for you
I'd die in your arms
To prove I love you more
To prove I love you more