Kevin Devine - Longer That I'm Out Here lyrics

The longer that I'm out here the better you sound You're scrunching up your face in this picture I found And I'm chasing after you, steadily losing ground I don't wanna forget so I'm writing it down Have you ever? No, never never? I find that hard to believe So let's burn the furniture To see how angry a fire could make me Now you say that there's someone that you need to reconnect with Some scarecrow from high school that you loved but never slept with A baby with a pipe dream playing hopscotch on your bandages And I'm singing all his songs while I sleep on your couch I'm coughing up a lung but I'm covering my mouth And I paint you on the wall Yellow, red, green and brown I miss you all the time but I'm blocking it out Are you better? No, never never? What does that say about me? Now let's break the smoke alarm To see how scared locked windows'll make me So you say there's a stranger staring sideways in a deep freeze A loner draped in ivy playing slumlord in his city dream A faker with an art form pulling magic tricks on the weak girls up his sleeve And I'm choking right along with the words in my throat I'm falling back in love with the letter you wrote And I think that I was wrong, but I guess I don't know I figure that I'll wait until you tell me so