lyrics
We live to love, but we love to burn. So you set a fire, and put it out in some hope of keeping the little that we yearn. Then I took my lighter, and burnt the rest down until we can’t be repaired.
Your dad reads his bible in the living room while we hide under your sheets. So they won’t know when we bury our sins beneath. Then I fall asleep with my head on your stomach while I listen to love kicking. Forgiveness is easier when no one knows what is happening.
Will you let me in? (Just don’t let me in.) I don’t want to know where you’ve been. (Where have you been?) I don’t want to talk about how the change in weather is making us feel distant. (Or who I am and who I was.) Because for a second, I forgot how it feels to miss you.
Yet I had to call because after two years I needed your voice, but the phone was so silent that I could hear the faucet drip from inside the kitchen. Then something triggered like clockwork in me. I was a field full of weeds, and you were a beautiful white flower that just couldn’t escape from me. (Don’t let me in)
I have this date imprinted inside my brain. When it comes, I disappear for a week. To try to solidify my hollow name, but my past keeps waking me up from my dreams. Like children we’ll let our minds take us far away. Then maybe innocence can come and set me free.
Will you let me in? (Just don’t let me in.) I don’t want to know where you’ve been. (Where have you been?) I don’t want to talk about the change, or whether it’s making us feel distant. (Or who I am and who I was.) Just don’t tell me where you’ve been. (All of your love was gone, and all of my love is lost. I think you can only give yourself away once then it’s lost. Accept when it comes to you; except when it comes to you)
There’s a point where these words become a burden. I don’t want to write anymore because I fear the weight of a God I never knew. Singing just doesn’t make sense anymore because I don’t think you would listen.
credits
from
For Dee EP,
track released September 29, 2011
All songs written by Matteo Russo and Cody Christian
All songs recorded and performed by Contact
All lyrics by Matteo Russo
Girl Vocals in "For Dee" by Sophie Croucier
Drums were recorded with Erol Ulug at Hi Octane Studios
Drums recorded by Eric Findlay
Guitars, bass, and vocals tracked at Workshop Studios
Mixed by Matteo Russo of Contact
Mastered by Bill Henderson at Azimuth Mastering
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