gonna grow you a place safer than this

Pulling out the pages that I wrote for you

Hoping you don't think that I'm dependent 'cause I know the truth

Might be too much, I'm not enough

I'm always disappointed in the things I write

Even when I speak it seems the words'll never come out right

Coping alone, just bring me home

Bruised and paper cut

I built a thousand paper cranes for good luck

But I can't protect you

I had my chance and I fucked it all up

I'm everywhere at once again

I hear the ocean in the engine

I feel the moonlight creeping in

Maybe it's all in my head

An unknown foreign presence in your bloodstream

I'm a stranger in my bed

What song do you wanna die to?

There's a bird inside your rib cage

He screams so I never forget

I wanna break open your sternum

I wanna rip him from his nest

And sow you back up like a garden

Growing flowers from your chest

There's a bird inside your rib cage

I keep trying to forget

If these motherfuckers made it to heaven

They burned the bridge when they got across

They're getting their anchors, they're gathering rope

You're pushing to heaven all alone

They're grabbing your ankles, they wont let you go

The ebb and the distant flow

They're cutting your wings off, built you ceilings out of stained glass

I'm exploding on re-entry, scattered wreckage in the sea

Everything's been grey forever, it's how it's always gonna be

I've never been more sure of something, I see it clearly in my dreams

I know I'm gonna be the one

The one who ruins everything

You've been the North Star since I was young

where the light's from

and I'll follow 'til the glow is gone.

I’m always caught in the space where you used to be.

Bruised and paper cut

I built a thousand paper cranes for good luck

But I can't protect you

I had my chance and I fucked it all up