Blood On The Cheer Stands

Friday night

Small town

Home game

Flags down

Bleachers packed

Mascara smears

Plastic crowns

And plastic cheers

You bite your lip

I taste the fear

You say you’re fine

I know you’re lying here

Necklace with a little cross

Hiding all the damage lost

Band plays, but my pulse

Keeps skipping on and off

It’s like vampire diaries in my veins

Every kiss a memory, every page stained

You draw little hearts in the margin of my pain

You love me, you haunt me

You love me, you haunt me again

Vampire diaries in my chest

Every night a cliffhanger, never get rest

You write your name where the blood won’t rinse

You love me, you haunt me

You love me, you haunt me since

Letterman jacket

Hiding old scars

You talk about classes

I’m counting your marks

You laugh too loud

To drown those thoughts

You say “I’m good”

But your eyes say “not”

We’re speeding through a red light

You hang halfway out the car

Shouting secrets at the dark sky

Like the night can hold your heart

You only call me

When the sun’s long gone

When the mirror shows

What you did all along

You say “promise you’ll stay

Through the worst of my wrong”

I say “baby, I’m cursed

Been dead all along” [crescendo]