Burned Is The House Songtext / Lyric

It's like we both had just arrived here

Like we both stepped off a plane in a new town

And the sun was out



I would talk and you would point your ear at me

Like I was making some sweet sound

You said to make it loud



But we can never come back here again

We can only hope to forget



Walked through a cemetery archway

To a wood that hummed so happily along

But the words were all wrong



You traded all my ill affections

For directions to a party across town

You bring the house down



But we can never go back there again

We can only hope






So, burned is the house, gone is the street

Here is the same disappointing retreat

And I need it like hell, if I'd lie to myself

To think I could live that life over again



When the cuts were like guilt, and the taste for your eyes

I'd say we're up when I couldn't just say goodnight

If you'd cry me a river you could baptize me in

I'd say I guess that's it, now I've fucking seen everything



You were the first real choice I would make

But we all make mistakes



Jumped overboard because the water's always greener

When the sun shines on the sea

Would you drown for me?



It's just as deep as you can make it

You tread water when you could stand on your knees

But don't pray to me



Cause when the last ray's taking on again

It will you leave you dead



But, but burned is the house, gone is the street

Here is the same disappointing retreat

And I need it like hell, if I'd lie to myself

To think I could live that life over again



When the cuts were like guilt, and the taste for your eyes

I'd say we're up when I couldn't just say goodnight

If you'd cry me a river you could baptize me in

I'd say I guess that's it, now I've fucking seen everything



You were the first real choice I would make

But we all make mistakes, oh