Set me up With the latest trends you're into I'm a doll that you dress up You're just this feeling I give in to We play games So you can get your high And I can feel I'm worth somebody's time I had this vision in the shower Scalding water sent me back To nights we used to talk for hours Seven hours, we kept track Much more than soap went down the drain Can't stand your image on my brain Before 18 I was tattooed Upon my mind, ideas of you And me And thoughts of how's it gonna be When you don't know me anymore Stealing all my words from songs I’d heard Before we got together Entangled in our own ideas of Happy ever after These new-fangled ways we string ourselves along I'm having visions in my shower Scalding water sent me back To nights we used to talk for hours Seven hours, we kept track Much more than soap went down the drain Can't stand your image on my brain Before 18 I was tattooed Upon my mind, ideas of you You're not my future anymore I've felt alone in crowded rooms They found me cornered on the couch Singing, "My new reality. This is my new reality" Eyes dry Floor wet with beer My mind, lost and fighting tears Eyes dry Floor wet with beer My mind, lost and fighting tears Eyes dry Floor wet with beer My mind, lost and fighting tears Eyes dry Floor wet with beer My mind, lost and fighting tears Eyes dry Floor wet with beer My mind, recounting all the years (recounting all the years X3) I wrote these lyrics in the shower Scalding water sent me back To nights we used to talk for hours Through the years I have lost track Those days are fading from my brain I let them slide right down the drain Yet here I stand, a flooded bathroom

I’m sitting in a bathtub Water's falling from the showerhead I feel thumping in my head And I can't get you out my head Now I'm laying on a bathroom floor Wishing I could muster more Memories of a girl I knew I was so in love with you And I wonder where you'd go When you'd escape my eyes' detection Felt my life was like a show You had me praying for the season where the writers point you my direction (It's too late) Til the day you die I'll hear voices in my head (you're living in these days gone by) Always wonderin' why There are things we left unsaid And so I'll wonder, til you're dead Sometimes I hate the good times She's got those little brown eyes Reminds me most our glory days are gone But there's a light inside them It's just enough, don't ever hide them Eyes kept me from letting go If only I could know what lies behind them I used to wonder where you'd go Just to escape all my affection One day I had to let it go To turn and walk my own direction It seems I found myself behind the doors I'd opened up in years before When you're what I was looking for Search for gold in puddles, all you'll find is your reflection I only miss what I need most You and my homebound train connections (It's too late) Til the day you die I'll hear voices in my head (you're living in these days gone by) Always wonderin' why There are things we left unsaid And so I'll wonder, til you're dead I wish she'd fallen off her pedestal, cause I'd have caught her Can't swim to shore, can't even drown, I'm treading water Out here alone it's where my twisted soul believes I ought to be Listened to scars, and you were right, I shouldn't ever doubt you But must you call I don't need more reasons to think about you I've got a jar, that's full of memories, I keep beside my bed So I think It's too late I’ll hear voices in my head Always wonderin' why There are things we left unsaid ‘Til the day you die I’m living in these days gone by

I hope you're proud that you became The kind of person who takes trains And drives your car for miles away Cause you're not strong enough to stay Within your room all afternoon Admitting there's nothing to do You need to post to prove you play Broken, I can hear you say "I'm fun, I swear, not boring Go check my Snapchat stories I may drop out of school But I'm still cultured, I can fool You with my quotes from Holden Sushi pictures, I'm withholding All my fears, my fears that you'll See through how I’ve Convinced myself I'm cool" Live free, hey, do what gets you through But Jake Barnes, you can't run from you Lehigh, Princeton, Yale I hear I could've taken their classes You just take their beer My friends, they ask why I still care But it’s hard to act unaware When who was once your girl next door Makes changes you cannot ignore I can hear her yelling "I'm fun, I swear, not boring Go check my Snapchat story I may drop out of school But I'm still cultured, I can fool You with my quotes from Holden Sushi pictures, I'm withholding All my fears, my fears that you'll See through how I’ve Convinced myself I'm cool" You always tried to give more to me When all I wanted was to sit and speak my mind all afternoon And if you’re off wishing hell on me It’s consolation knowing I’m still stuck here writing songs for you And so I have to say You've proved you're far from boring I still check your Snapchat stories Please don't drop out of school Although it's not my place, I'm just a fool Collecting my degrees Reflecting insecurities And breaking all my golden rules Yeah that's how I’ve Convinced myself I'm cool

I’ll never know All that you’re feeling Won’t you show The things you stopped revealing to me? Don’t expect the past to mean That we’ll get caught in in-betweens Tonight I’ve got nowhere to be Talk to me the daylight’s almost gone I don’t know you anyway When you’re traveling on Don’t take with you Words I need to hear you say tonight You’ll never know How much it’s meaning To forgo Our old constant stream of bleeding and To hear the tales from Amsterdam That didn’t make your Instagram And have no ill to say Talk to me the daylight’s almost gone I don’t know you anyway When you’re traveling on Don’t take with you Words I need to hear you say tonight How can I say what I mean? I am just one man, With only 20,000 words Most of which I’m certain, darling, You’ve already heard Now at last Once hilly grounds lay even I got past The day you stopped believing in me Don’t expect our past to mean That we’ll get caught in in-betweens Tonight I’ve got nowhere to be

She left him with roses He told me as if she's to blame He said "I'm a fool for having loved her" But a fool He needs loving just the same He'll be counting the hours 'til he forgets her face Oh but a fool's hard to fool Once he's fallen in love You can't fool him right out Once his heart gets Cemented in place You know the fire's meant to warm you Until you stare into the flame I know it's pretty in the moment But the same can be said of cocaine What is today but a slice of forever? I've found the blues are a personal weather I see storm clouds in your eyes Under clear blue skies Stick with the girl and you'll get stuck together But stick to this script and things just might not ever get better I see storm clouds in your eyes Under nothing but clear blue skies I got lost in my kitchen I’m wanderin’ the house and I feel you here haunting the walls And I know why you’re scared, Girl you love to feel blue But you took it too far Now I’m losing that sweet feeling too I know it's pretty in the moment But the same can be said of cocaine In the heat of July, you might welcome the rainclouds But oh when you're drowning you don't need the rain What is today but a slice of forever? I've found the blues are a personal weather I see storm clouds in your eyes Under clear blue skies Stick with me babe, we can get stuck together But stick to this script and things just might not ever get better I've seen storm clouds in your eyes Under clear blue skies We had it simple back in ’55 I’d dry every tear that you’d cry Was it a product of the times? And had we loved in ’16 might it all have just changed, at the drop of a tear, all our lives rearranged Would the doctors prescribe, would my brothers’ve told me to run? Well we’ve only just begun What is today but a slice of forever? I've found the blues are a personal weather I see storm clouds in your eyes Under nothing but clear blue skies Stick with me babe, we can get stuck together You’ll wake up each day with a man who’s just trying to get better I'll chase storm clouds from your eyes And replace them with clear blue skies

To me the trees lose leaves not ‘cause the cold comes to end fall But to remind themselves they'd never been untainted after all And I've been far from evergreen Collecting leaf piles in-between Each season Or so it seems So I chose you It was such a hurried thing to do But I was in a winter that had overstayed it's welcome Searching for the igloo that could wipe away the cold I’d been drawn to stable structures As I felt my bones grow old Now I know you're worth more Than bricks of snow But let me stand afar and claim I Know that you'll stay Evergreen, be my evergreen Lie to me Say you'll make me whole I wasn't out the woods yet when I saw them cut you down How strange viewed from a distance, I’m familiar with the sound Cause I’ve been behind that saw, oh I have worked upon their crew But in my unemployment I’m just lookin’ on to you ‘cause You're my evergreen, won’t you Please stay evergreen, with me Lie to me Convince me that you’re whole I’m no gardener, true, Just a has-been faking love with you To save me from what’s been my own device I think I’d rather die alone Than scheme from off this Fool’s gold throne Your insides are aching The outsiders claim that it’s mine for the taking And my heart is breaking Sitting watching you through Brown bystander eyes Knowing such a pretty casing Holds such broken down inside I'd glue all your leaves back on If I suspected it might help But I know no one's meant to live that way It's not your fault you'll never Be my evergreen Won’t you please stay evergreen, with me Lie to me Convince me that you’re whole Be my evergreen Be my evergreen Say you’ll make me whole

Things got hard And I got lazy Now I can't see Beyond this yellow-purple haze that's in my eyes I'll walk home slow Cause I doubt I'll get To where I'm headed soon Summer sent my heart back seasons I hope by the fall I'll recall Reasons why I'm right where I belong Static is a losing game What a shame to stay the same And watch the world keep begging me to change The girl from last year died at the last midnight of December Now I'm working up the nerve to finally pull the plug as well Winter followed right from fall Left me feeling awfully small I'd put myself in silly situations I spent that summer Like a fool, in need of healing Sitting weeks out on my porch To understand what I’d been feeling Christmas landed on a Wednesday All I wanted was to Make it through the week Full-knowing we won’t speak I committed to Always offering you the time of day I'm a lover not a fighter And I've never known another way I've committed to Always offering you the time of day In class they taught me reason But my heart, it works another way She's my favorite way to claim that not a day has passed And not a thing has changed Just like these songs I know won’t last Them and her, to me, are just one and them same So I'll keep writing If you keep reading You'll be the cloth that stops my rain-soaked ears from bleeding Out the thoughts that I hold in I think it’s far too late for you You've heard these notes You’re bleeding too I promise next time, I'll do better

Tears in my eggs Pressure's low I can use the extra salt I never did learn to grow up I'll learn it from a better man than I It's not his fault When worlds come crumbling down Us people lay in pieces on the ground I'd walk these streets if I had to To try and be my brother's glue We sat on counter-tops like boys And wished we hadn't seen our boy Become a man This way Within the stairwell, picked me off the floor And offered more than just A laugh at broken shower heads, A heart to heart, and makeshift beds I've built a debt I can never pay But how I wish I could today He lyin’ seven feet away from me But there's no distance I can see Between us I'd walk streets, you know it’s true It’s just a thing that brothers do I’d walk these streets if I had to To try and be my brother’s glue (Tears in my eggs Pressure's low I can use the extra salt I never did learn to grow up) I’m learning from a better man Than I A better man than I

Oh it was just a smile That's all it took to do me in I'll have to wait a while Until I see her face again Oh it was just a smile One I'll carry all week through Could I be in denial For the past month or two? She nearly made me stay In this city one more day I might find the words to say hello But do not get me wrong My heart's still not far along I've got my smile, I think it's time to go But I want to feel helpless again I want to feel like my world's gonna end If I don't see her in the window serving pastries On the corner of Fourth and Garden I'll be there when there's snow on the ground I will not go when the sun's coming down And you may wonder who this kid is In the window, staring at you writing rhymes in his mind 'bout a girl he's never met Express train home, I'm on my way Taller now than yesterday And for a moment I'd forgotten I'm alone She nearly made me stay In this city one more day but I can't find the nerve to say hello I'm sure it won't last long My heart's known less right than wrong I've got my smile, I think it's time to go But I want to feel helpless again I want to feel like my world's gonna end If I don't see her in the window serving pastries On the corner of Fourth and Garden I'll be there when there's snow on the ground I will not go when the sun's coming down And you may wonder who this kid is In the window, staring at you writing rhymes in his mind 'bout a girl he's never met I'm on the corner yet again I'm not sure that she was ever there at all Cause ever since that day last fall I haven’t seen the face That draws me to my pastry place Never could believe my eyes They let my worried mind disguise The world I see, to fill the holes inside me

Where you going? How you been? You know I found solace in that skin So don't you just walk it away It’s your fault I stand so tall You built me up, and when I tried to fall Back to the earth, you made me stay So am I a fool for getting involved again? To try and help you understand? To poke holes in your superman? I'm not who you've cracked me up to be I'll never fill the scene you're painting I don't resemble who you see If we keep on walking down this road It’ll get harder to break free Baby give up on me, give up on me (Oh oh oh oh) You know it takes a lot for me To claim I don’t live perfectly But I’m begging that you’ll try and see my flaws (I’ll save my pride for rainy days) Cause it’s your fault I stand so tall You built me up, and when I tried to fall Back to the earth, you made me stay So I'm just a fool who’s getting involved again To try and help you understand To prove that I'm no superman I'm not who you've cracked me up to be I'm not the man you think you see Baby give up on me, give up on me If you choose to curl up in my arms I'm just afraid you won't stay warm I've tried to warn you I don't love her oh, but I'll be damned if I let her love another Toxic thoughts you taught me, baby, from this love I'm sure I won't Recover Cause it's your fault I stand so tall It’s your fault I stand so tall (x4)

The photos in his window The corners of my mind The hope she keeps in boxes The years we can’t rewind, the years we can’t rewind And here’s to the moments you’re slightly uneasy The low-level whisper, that just barely queasy You’ve searched all your heartstrings, to find which need tuning But none of them need tuning The source of my compulsions The patterns of the times The friends I placed in boxes I drew the hardest lines, I drew the hardest lines You’re all the same with your stupid white sneakers If only you’d kept your conscious as clean If only you loved without falling apart at the seams Go run along with your four-chorded music Board the planes, chase down all your designer dreams I’ll grow old painting scenes of blue The lights, they came on far too soon And I never quite was in the mood To dance, with all these knockoff yous