I can't imagine life without you But now it seems that I might have to Give you up forever Press the button, pull the lever And a door opens beneath me I can't believe I'm breathing As I watch you from below, No escape, nowhere to go Everyone can have you but me Yeah, everyone can have you but me Oh, baby Isn't that fucked up? I can't imagine life without you But now it seems that I might have to Give you up forever Press the button, pull the lever And a door opens beneath me I can't believe I'm breathing As I watch you from below, No escape, nowhere to go I've lost so much lately, my dear Yeah I've lost so much lately, my dear And now, I've gotta lose you too Oh, I've lost so much lately my dear I'm frozen in a moment of fear That I can't make it through I'll see you every weekend, and my willpower will weaken Cause I'm close enough to touch you, you won't stop me if I want to And my friends can't help but love it, you're the one they want to covet I'll forever be a witness to my cruel and distant mistress I can't imagine life without you But now it seems that I might have to Give you up forever Press the button, pull the lever And a door opens beneath me I can't believe I'm breathing As I watch you from below, No escape, nowhere to go

Melt me in your oven, baby Microwave me down Until I'm fit enough to sit Inside your crowded house I'm the sweat upon your brow, The spinach in your pan I'm getting cold, so please just mold Me with your weathered hands Turn me in to what you want, cause all I want is you I'm getting bored of my before, So make me over new Chisel me away til' I belong in a museum Keep on going til' I'm glowing for the mausoleum Press me with your flowers, baby Put me with the leaves Until the faintest brush of breath shatters me into weeds You're the popcorn in my teeth, The hair that coats my drain The coffee dregs, the jello legs, the ribcage in the rain Turn me in to what you want, cause all I want is you I'm getting bored of my before, So make me over new Chisel me away til' I belong in a museum Keep on going til' I'm glowing for the mausoleum Turn me in to what you want, cause all I want is you Getting bored of my before, so make me over new Turn me in to what you want, cause all I want is you Getting bored of my before, so make me over new

I don’t know what I should expect from you Just try your best to do no harm And I’ll return the favor if you promise me That we’ll both do all we can do before one leaves I’ll always be An amateur at whatever I choose to do From making music all the way to loving you Regardless of the time And now I see That it’s okay to stumble and to fall I’ve been doing it so much it doesn’t hurt at all And I’m glad you’re willing to be mine I’ll make you coffee when the morning comes And it’ll be average at best And you will lie and say you like your coffee week And I will smile because you turned the other cheek I’m the Sisyphus of love It’s hit or miss, like when I kiss The nose above your parted lips I’m not what you were thinking of But every moment clarifies That love’s not where perfection lies I’ll always be An amateur at whatever I choose to do From making music all the way to loving you Regardless of the time And now I see That it’s okay to stumble and to fall I’ve been doing it so much it doesn’t hurt at all And I’m glad you’re willing to be mine

Don’t make me the woman in your window Silence, my lamb, our true romance is gone You’re more melodramatic than a Pickford picture More unreliable than Rashomon Fellini is a type of pasta, isn’t it? And Tarantino is a bit of a dick, let’s admit it I don’t know about movies That doesn’t mean I don’t like them I don’t know about movies Guess I can’t be your film girlfriend I think I’m more into TV But I’ve still never seen Seinfeld I don’t know about movies But at least I’m not an incel Just like Godard, you used to leave me breathless But, as of now, I’m bluer than Pierrot This thing moved faster than a script by Sorkin But I’m not your Rosebud, so leave me in the snow I’m a little too Mitski, I’m a little too Misty For your carefully curated taste And when I get on my Britney, when I get on my Whitney I can’t wait to see your face Can’t wait to see the look on your face I don’t know about movies That doesn’t mean I don’t like them I don’t know about movies Guess I can’t be your film girlfriend I think I’m more into TV But I’ve still never seen Seinfeld I don’t know about movies But at least I’m not an incel

You can’t spell lacking without LA When I’m out here I feel I lack in every way I like being around folks who are ugly Because those folks don’t look at me too smugly I wish I could go to NYC or home to Houston Where it all feels less constructed despite the construction This city makes me want to get a nose job I have never felt so out of place for so long I can’t stand LA I thought that this was the life I want But I might not be able to stay If you were here with me I could stick around a while With the help of your company . I wish you were beside me in this gridlock traffic Because all our conversations have the same gymnastic Quality about them, how they spiral Into tangents, hypotheticals, and eye-rolls I want to take you to the pier at night If we swim we’ll run the risk of growing extra eyes But I think we’d still slip into those dark waters And embrace whatever dangers they might offer I can’t stand LA I thought that this was the life I want But I might not be able to stay If you were here with me I could stick around a while With the help of your company Oh it’s a simple happiness A deep, intrinsic happiness I’m joyful, and I’m tired, and I’m warm, when I’m with you It’s a simple happiness A deep, intrinsic happiness I’m joyful, and I’m tired, and I’m warm

Change is coming, is coming, my way I keep trying to look ahead, but I can’t make out its shape These years...I’ve fully taken them for granted And now that it’s time to go, I want to stay where I’m planted Houston, temple to concrete and light Houston, where summer cicadas shepherd us through the night Houston, clouds of mosquitoes roam free Houston, my constant companion, my bayou, and my trees And when I’m asked where I come from I vow to never hang my head in shame You’ve been nothing but good to me I wouldn’t trade you for anything So when they shake their heads and frown I’ll tell them they don’t know a thing about my town The flatness, the cars, and the sprawl Add a certain charm, and I’m glad that we have them all The rain does nothing to dampen our spirits And I’ll keep singing praises to anyone who can hear it Houston, I amble along every street Houston, you and I become one when I melt into your heat Houston, my glasses fog in your embrace Houston, I’ll never let my memories of you get erased And when I meet my new city I'll try to sink my roots into its ground But something might hold me back My heart may still be in your grasp So please let me know That if I should come back home You will take me with open arms I promise, part of me will never part

Baby, lately you’re driving me crazy I’m doing a favor to the ladies Who might get stuck being with you If I didn’t want to, your passive Aggressiveness pains me in the ass, if You keep on acting in this fashion I don’t know if I can go on With someone so headstrong But there is a reason I’m with you through all the seasons The mornings, noons, and nights, And though I might question the extent of your affection I think our thing’s alright, at least you’re Better than nothing Nothing at all I’d rather be in misery than have no one to call You’re better than nothing The lowest of bars You breathe and walk and check the box For tall guy with a car Try to be someone I don’t have to lie to When you ask me if I still love you It’s not quite a yes, not quite a no I’m stuck in that limbo Catalyst For all of my latent bad habits Like honking when streets are choked with traffic So if I call you a jerk, you’re not wrong To say it takes one to know one But there is a reason I’m with you through all the seasons The mornings, noons, and nights, And though I might question the extent of your affection I think our thing’s alright, at least you’re Better than nothing Nothing at all I’d rather be in misery than have no one to call You’re better than nothing But still I don’t know If nothing would be better than A subpar Romeo I don’t know, yeah, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know I don’t know, yeah, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know

I need to meet some more musicians But none of them are ever free Oh I really want to find someone Who can help me sing this song It’s not the same without the harmony Oh, I wanna be in a band so bad I wanna be, I wanna be I wanna be in a band so bad Won’t you play with me, won’t you play with me I can’t find a friend So I’ll make my own music instead Still wish I could be in a band Imagine drums that aren’t electronic Or a lead guitar played loud and smooth Oh, I’m begging you, please come to me With theremins and banjo strings It’s clear that I have got nothing to lose Oh, I wanna be in a band so bad I wanna be, I wanna be I wanna be in a band so bad Won’t you play with me, won’t you play with me I can’t find a friend So I’ll make my own music instead Still wish I could be in a band Seven one three six four seven eleven sixty-seven Give me a hand Seven one three six four seven eleven sixty-seven Come over and jam Seven one three six four seven eleven sixty-seven Give me a hand Seven one three six four seven eleven sixty-seven Come over and jam

CHORUS Bet there’s no greater satisfaction Than a hot girl crying over you Don’t wanna paint you as an asshole But it’s the only thing I can do Why did I waste my time Why did I break my heart I know it’s not your fault But I’m glad that we’re apart VERSE 1 It’s hard to write this song When I don’t feel it anymore I don’t think of you anymore Yeah, it’s pretty hard to write this song When it sprung from another universe From a wound that never hurts Feels like a different person wrote the chorus And a different person rooted for us I’m trying to get inside her head So I climb back into my old body and it feels so wrong Hangs heavy on me With these words I’m bringing back the dead CHORUS Bet there’s no greater satisfaction Than a hot girl crying over you Don’t wanna paint you as an asshole But it’s the only thing I can do Why did I waste my time Why did I break my heart I know it’s not your fault But I’m glad that we’re apart VERSE 2 I’m sailing towards a foreign land, baby A place untouched by all the things you used to do to me I’ll have my cake and eat it too Without saving a slice for you And, though I brought my telescope, You’re growing hard to see CHORUS Bet there’s no greater satisfaction Than a hot girl crying over you Don’t wanna paint you as an asshole But it’s the only thing I can do Why did I waste my time Why did I break my heart I know it’s not your fault But I’m glad that we’re apart VERSE 3 I’m shipping off to start anew, it’s true My hair will grow unruly as I weather each storm that comes through I’ll find shelter, I’ll find peace And I’ll finally release The stones that filled my pockets And my sunken sockets too CHORUS Bet there’s no greater satisfaction Than a hot girl crying over you Don’t wanna paint you as an asshole But it’s the only thing I can do Why did I waste my time Why did I break my heart Why did I waste my time Why did I break my heart Why did I waste my time Why did I break my heart I know it’s not your fault But I’m glad that we’re apart

What happened to your love so true What happened to the love I knew You’ve been so quiet and I don’t know what to do Tell me if I’m the reason that you’re blue You used to call me all the time Now you call weekly, once or twice You might still look the same, but who knows what’s inside? Baby, please tell me if you’re alright I hope the distance makes you happy If you’re happy then I’m happy then we’re fine I used to waste away just basking in your presence Now it seems I can’t help close my eyes Now you’re coming down for Christmas Eve You’ll be here for two days and then you’ll leave And when I look at you, I don’t know what I’ll see An answer to this question haunting me? Or many questions best kept overseas I hope the distance makes you happy If you’re happy then I’m happy then we’re fine I used to waste away just basking in your presence Now it seems I can’t help close my eyes Can’t close my eyes (Can’t help but close my eyes) I (Can’t help close my eyes) I (Can’t help close my eyes)

INTRO: The shadow-double of my heart that beats almost in time Is moth-eaten and oft-forgot and barely even mine It holds the ghost of love once felt, the memory of touch, the kisses once electric clanking in their coats of rust Between the hearts there lies a path walked only by a few I walk upon it sometimes, and now I walk with you The color’s fading from your cheeks, I wonder if you know About the heart of no return with veins of catacombs CHORUS: I just can’t see you in my catacombs (I just can’t see, I just can’t see) I don’t know if you’d like it there (I don’t know if you’d like it there) The way my empty gaze would slip right past you (Slip right past you) The way I’d be so sure to never stare (I’d be so sure to never stare) But my friend I think I’ve got it backwards (Backwards it got I’ve think I) I think I’m scared you’d be at peace (You’d be at peace) That you’d feel right at home among the cobwebs And that you’d say you never want to leave VERSE 1: I know that you’re probably doing fine And I know that it’s okay that I’m not But it still hurts to see the cloud above my head That appears in every mirror, follows wherever I walk I feel the grass turn brown beneath my feet The constant bitter taste within my mouth The downcast eyes of everyone I meet The breaking glass, the brewing storm, the power going out CHORUS: I just can’t see you in my catacombs (I just can’t see, I just can’t see) I don’t know if you’d like it there (I don’t know if you’d like it there) The way my empty gaze would slip right past you (Slip right past you) The way I’d be so sure to never stare (I’d be so sure to never stare) But my friend I think I’ve got it backwards (Backwards it got I’ve think I) I think I’m scared you’d be at peace (You’d be at peace) That you’d feel right at home among the cobwebs And that you’d say you never want to leave VERSE 2: This is supposed to be my big facade My show of strength my wide, unbothered smile But I don’t care much for that coup de grace If I’m feeling weak, I’ll show it, and I’ve felt weak for a while And I can feel the strength as it floods in The static in my fingers as they warm The readiness to talk to you again But devoid of any layers of mist I saw you through before BRIDGE: All I could do was all I could do Even when I thought only of you All I could feel was what wasn’t right All I could say was hollow and trite All I could see was somewhat obscured By what I sought and what I ignored All I could hear was the sound of my voice All that I know is that I had no choice CHORUS: I just can’t see you in my catacombs (I just can’t see, I just can’t see) I don’t know if you’d like it there (I don’t know if you’d like it there) The way my empty gaze would slip right past you (Slip right past you) The way I’d be so sure to never stare (I’d be so sure to never stare) But my friend I think I’ve got it backwards (Backwards it got I’ve think I) I think I’m scared you’d be at peace (You’d be at peace) That you’d feel right at home among the cobwebs And that you’d say you never want to leave