Backseat Confessions

You pull up on my street

Same dent in the backseat

Same song that we skip

'Cause it sounds like my last slip

You say you’ve been trying

To keep it all honest

But your eyes start sliding

Every time you promise

If you want my love

Say it straight

Say it with your chest

Not late

I can take the truth

I swear

Hate the silence more than I hate despair

If you’re really staying

Stay

If you’re really leaving

Say

I just want it real

That’s all

Real enough to risk the fall (oh)

You trace my tattoo

Ask what I’ve been hiding

I laugh

Say

“yeah

You”

But my voice is tired of fighting

I’m done with half-answers

Sweet talk

Then vanish

If we’re gonna break

Let’s

Break clean

Not vanish

If you want my love

Say it straight

Say it with your chest

Not late

I can take the truth

I swear

Hate the silence more than I hate despair

If you’re really staying

Stay

If you’re really leaving

Say

I just want it real

That’s all

Real enough to risk the fall (hey)

Tell me where it hurts in you

I’ll tell you where it burns in me

We could keep pretending

Or we could really be

Nothing dressed in sugar

No half-hearted deals

Just your heartbeat

My heartbeat

And everything we feel

If you want my love

Say it straight

Say it with your chest

Not late

I can take the truth

I swear

Hate the silence more than I hate despair

If you’re really staying

Stay

If you’re really leaving

Say

I just want it real

That’s all

Real enough to risk the fall (ooh, real)

Real enough to risk it all