[Intro]
Late call
Blue glow on my face
Your name
Still stuck in this place
[Verse 1]
First kiss in a parking lot
Rain on your thrift-store coat
You traced hearts on fogged-up glass
Said “promise me you won’t go”
We carved our names in a bathroom stall
Black ink
Broken pen
You said “forever’s such a stupid word”
I said it anyway
Again
[Chorus]
I will always pick you
Even when the future
Pulls us like teeth from the same soft mouth
I will always pick you
Even as we vanish
Fading like a town on the way straight south
You’re the face in the blur
You’re the wound and the cure
I will always pick you
[Verse 2]
We burned bright in a small dark room
Posters peeling off the wall
You laughed at my disaster plans
Then watched every one come true and fall
Pill bottles on your windowsill
Missed calls on my cracked screen
You said “I’m tired of waking up”
I said “I’m scared of what that means”
[Chorus]
I will always pick you
Even when the future
Pulls us like teeth from the same soft mouth
I will always pick you
Even as we vanish
Fading like a town on the way straight south
You’re the face in the blur
You’re the wound and the cure
I will always pick you
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] This is the part
Where I lose you for real
Not in some song
On some scratched burned disc
But in calendars I stopped flipping
Birthdays I stopped remembering right
Your voice gets grainy
Like an old home tape
But somehow
Somehow [crescendo
Screamed]
YOU’RE STILL THE ONLY ONE I CHOOSE
[Chorus]
[harsh vocals
Gang shouts under last line]