Burned Is The House - Alkaline Trio

It’s like we both had just arrived here\nLike we both stepped off a plane in a new town\nAnd the sun was out\nI would talk and you would point your ear at me\nLike I was making some sweet sound\nYou said to make it loud\nBut we can never come back here again\nWe can only hope to forget\nWalked through a cemetery archway\nTo a wood that hummed so happily along\nBut the words were all wrong\nYou traded all my ill affections\nFor directions to a party across town\nYou bring the house down\nBut we can never go back there again\nWe can only hope\nSo, burned is the house, gone is the street\nHere is the same disappointing retreat\nAnd I need it like hell, if I’d lie to myself\nTo think I could live that life over again\nWhen the cuts were like guilt, and the taste for your eyes\nI’d say we’re up when I couldn’t just say goodnight\nIf you’d cry me a river you could baptize me in\nI’d say I guess that’s it, now I’ve fucking seen everything\nYou were the first real choice I would make\nBut we all make mistakes\nJumped overboard because the water’s always greener\nWhen the sun shines on the sea\nWould you drown for me?\nIt’s just as deep as you can make it\nYou tread water when you could stand on your knees\nBut don’t pray to me\nCause when the last ray’s taking on again\nIt will you leave you dead\nBut, but burned is the house, gone is the street\nHere is the same disappointing retreat\nAnd I need it like hell, if I’d lie to myself\nTo think I could live that life over again\nWhen the cuts were like guilt, and the taste for your eyes\nI’d say we’re up when I couldn’t just say goodnight\nIf you’d cry me a river you could baptize me in\nI’d say I guess that’s it, now I’ve fucking seen everything\nYou were the first real choice I would make\nBut we all make mistakes, oh