Paper Crown Lyrics

Only Lonely

My fingers are the only bones I want here

She takes me when I share my den

and turn my tide

She knows I have a tendency

I make mountains out of stones

And without timber burn a hundred fires

I've been around, been up and down this road before

I've eaten all the seeds you yearn to give

When I was born she made a garland of the broken weeds

I've always worn it and forever she has lived

How did you know

When I would go

When I swim back to blue

I can only tread water while you tend to my other

She is only lonely for you

Back when all her quiet words were thunder

And her answers were all crooked little truths

I was heavy as a hazard in an unmade bed

Spinning lies, weaving pyres for my youth

I can build a nest in any scaffold

Dwelling in the reverie I keep

I'm traveling in a nightmare on a map back to the greenhouse

Take me to the garden where my daydreams sleep

How did you know

When I would go

When I swim back to blue

I can only tread water while you tend to my other

She is only lonely for you

Do Something

I know stubbornness

Just like this

When is enough enough

Why can't you feel this love?

Blindly watching here

Nearsighted puppeteers

Do something kind with our

patience

There was a time

I didn't know my lines

But I grew up and out

Conquered my childish doubts

Now it's your turn to take

The paper crown you made

Do something kind with our patience

Can't read more than half a page

Spitting all of your tepid hate

And although our bones will ache

We've agreed to stay awake

Blindly watching here

Nearsighted puppeteers

Do something kind with our patience

Come on in for some cheap heartbreak

Our classic mistake

Do something kind with our patience

Can’t Cheat Death

Hands to your hymnals

Hell's at the door

It bellows and it growls and it roars

I was snared by a sickness

Some fever in my lungs

Wore my language like an amaranthine

Brand on my tongue

You spilled blood in the water

You let the storm roll in

Put my hands in the fire

As my welcome wore thin

Salted my wounds and

Spit in my eye

I'll burn the path you walk on

And I let none survive

We are painted with the fear that if the sea recedes it never comes back

But there are two

things I know for sure

I will be free

I will be free

I will be free

And you can't cheat death

Head full of poison

The devil in your hold

You’re a dogtooth liar

And you’re caught up in smoke

Pour acid in your glass

and I’ll watch you choke

I rue the day I met you

And I curse the words you spoke

I ain’t your savior

and I ain’t your slave

I cut the rope you keep me on and

dug up your grave

You’re envious of ghosts and where their hands have been

You got no marrow in them bones

Just trouble and sin

We are painted with the fear that if the sea recedes it never comes back

But there are two

things I know for sure

I will be free

I will be free

I will be free

And you can't cheat death

Fistfight

Fortune up and left me on the hotel floor

Well you know she never paid me no mind

I was lying in the corner making eyes at the door

They say it’s good to start the story with a tragedy

The day I finally met you like I knew I would

And you raised me from the wreck of my doubt

You were smiling to yourself as if we both understood

The silent language of the anguish of a heart that sings but doesn’t make a sound

What did I do to deserve you?

How did you find me, I was already halfway gone

You were a bright light

You were a fistfight

Nobody told me all the patience it takes

For the sky to open up around me

They said love is grabbing blindly at a pit full of snakes

And wait to feel the only eel among the rows of all the venomous teeth

What did I do to deserve you?

How did you find me, I was already halfway gone

You were a bright light

You were a fistfight

Our love is older than the Great War

Our love spins a gun around its finger

Our loves has found its way into our mouths before

Cut our teeth until we swallow it whole

Our love hums low beneath the floorboards

Our love grows flowers in the winter

Our love has found its way onto our tongues before

There is more so take a bite and let it linger

What did I do to deserve you?

How did you find me, I was already halfway gone

You were a bright light

You were a fistfight

Almost Love

I’m in the middle of a drink

Without it I can’t stay

When I reach the top of the trees

I’ll unwrap my fingers, feel my footing run away

I’m in the middle of a poem

This one’s not for you

And as I was counting stars

I may have missed out on my moon

I don’t have a sadness in a place it shouldn’t live

and I don’t have a darkness over all I break and all I mend

I have glass in my throat when I sing

about what an almost love it could have been

I can’t ever sleep

All my dreams are riddled with the

languages a tongue can speak

Before the birds are heard

I’m shrouded in the devil’s cloud to watch the morning burn

I don’t have a sadness in a place it shouldn’t live

and I don’t have a darkness over all I break and all I mend

I have glass in my throat when I sing

about what an almost love it could have been

I gather my yesterdays

They’re all I could hold but in the end not save

I’ll find a new way to be alone

Oh, another hideaway outgrown

I’m in the middle of a drink

This one’s not with you

If I fall, will you swallow me whole?

Turn him into you and turn myself into a fool