Verse 1

You can’t have diamonds made of gold

You can’t stop from getting old

You can’t put everyone you’ve loved into a single car and

You can only go so far

Chorus

But you

Can have me

But you

Deserve to see the way that you want to be

Hm but I’ve fallen.

Verse 2

You can’t have 700 wives

You can’t decide who lives or why

The universe exploded

You can’t have constant happiness

You can’t rebuild forgotten bliss

Or mountaintops, eroded

Chorus

But you

Can have me

But you

Deserve to see the way that you want to be

Hm but I’ve fallen.

Verse 3

But when I walked into your room

I was so scared that you would see

All the nervousness surrounding me

But now I know I was the fool

For starting every single sentence

In my head with “we”

You can’t have everything you want

Or even sometimes what need

Even if you need it desperately

But, apple blossom, if I could,

I’d carve a shuttle out wood,

And fly us out beyond the breeze.

All alone except for stars,

I would wonder how you are

The most beautiful of things

Chorus

But you

Can have me

But you

Deserve to see the way that you want to be

Hm but I’ve fallen.

1.
love is a disease
it infects what you believe about yourself and the others you need
and love is not kind it won’t smile and it won’t shine
it isn’t there when you need it. you can’t save it and you can’t delete it
and love is cruel and unforgiving and love is usually unwilling
to give you back what you’ve been building it will scorch the earth just cos you’re tilling it
and like a cat you’ve been petting, for every day and every single week,
but when you need it and when you’re feeling weak all it really wants to do is fall asleep
because love is vicious and love is spiteful but love also just doesn’t care
so you can fight it but when you strike at it it’ll just vanish like it was never there
but believe me it’s still there, not in your shoes or heart or hair
cos i’ve looked in all the obvious places and still haven’t found it anywhere
but when i find it i will kill it, so that i can get on with my life
and regain composure of my posture and control of the thoughts in my own mind
because love will break you apart.

2.
but now hate is accessible and jealousy is free
bitterness is easy and blame comes even easier for me.
And lust is a game that you always will lose
but who minds losing when each level has new contestants for you to choose
and you can yell out Okay i’m finished, now i want to win!
well too bad cos winning’s not up to you, all you can do is choose when to begin
to start losing something different shaped vaguely like pride
but much bigger and much heavier and much much easier to find
and once you give that away you will know
by the sickness in your stomach and the numbness in your toes
because love will break you apart
and love will break you apart
love will break you apart
love is hard.

Let’s put our fingers in our fingers
And, oh my, what are those
Brown eyes that look back at me?
If I’m a singer you’re a singer
We’re a duet of those low and highs that make harmony

[Post-Chorus]
I could make you… you so happy
I could make you… you so happy

[Verse 2]
Oh, I tried to back your back when you lead
But then you’re easy to follow
Oh, I tried to make you make you love me
But then your heart’s never hollow

Let’s put our fingers in our fingers
And, oh my, what are those
Brown eyes that look back at me?
If I’m a singer you’re a singer
We’re a duet of those low and highs that make harmony

[Post-Chorus]
I could make you… you so happy
I could make you… you so happy

[Instrumental]
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I could untie all your knots make you feel good when you’re not
Just so you could be so happy
I could roll up all the dirt into flowers when you’re hurt
You would always be so happy
I would blow out all the smoke make you whole when you were broke
I just want you to be so happy
I would tear down all the walls
I would do anything at all… to make you so happy

[Verse 1]
Oh, I tried to let you let yourself go
But then my arms won’t let you
Oh, I tried to hold you hold yourself up
But then my arms always caught you

Let’s put our fingers in our fingers
And, oh my, what are those
Brown eyes that look back at me?
If I’m a singer you’re a singer
We’re a duet of those low and highs that make harmony

[F/A]
End on C

tu n’es pas fait main
rassis comme le vieux pain
i can see
c’est la vie
that you’re quiet and you’re pure
and now you hang your head demur
and it makes you an atheist
to think of yourself this way

sitting on the bottom of the shelf
she’s missing all the pieces of herself
am i patient am i kind or am i wasting time
counting out her blessings one by some
she’s rounding down to several minus one
am i patient am i kind or am i wasting time

oooooooooooo

tu es dans un pot
la fleur fane trop tot
i thought you knew c’est du deja vu
you demand to know how far
but you never left and you’ve been starred
and it makes you feel infinite
to think of yourself this way

tu es bourgeoise
presque comme une framboise
i can tell
mademoiselle
that you’re too red to be sunburnt
what it is i can’t discern
and it makes you uncomfortable
to think of yourself this way

sitting on the bottom of the shelf
she’s missing all the pieces of herself
am i patient am i kind or am i wasting time
counting out her blessings one by some
she’s rounding down to several minus one
am i patient am i kind or am i wasting time

oooooooooooo

End on D

And if I find one more ring
of yours mixed up among my things
I just might sell all my belongings
to make sure I’ve cut all my strings
and if I find one more note
crumpled up inside my coat
I’m moving back to Carolina
where I’ll live out on the coast
live out of the coast

I have a box of trinkets
I count them one by one
each one is a keepsake
from a war that I have won
I have a daily schedule
a comfortable routine
watch months roll by with pleasure
like girls walking down the street

And if I find one more ring
of yours mixed up among my things
I just might sell all my belongings
to make sure I’ve cut all my strings
and if I find one more note
crumpled up inside my coat
I’m moving back to Carolina
where I’ll live out on the coast
live out of the coast

I lost all my ambition
could’ve settled for less
but if I can’t have you
I don’t care about the rest

And if I find one more ring
of yours mixed up among my things
I just might sell all my belongings
to make sure I’ve cut all my strings
and if I find one more note
crumpled up inside my coat
I’m moving back to Carolina
where I’ll live out on the coast
and if I find one more strand
of black hair under my night stand

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Well when I’m the reason you get mad
Consider when you never had
A reason to be quite so angry for it all.

And when you’re the reason I get red
I’ll consider throwing you to bed
As well as all the times when I got nothing much at all.

But don't walk away, and I won't walk away.

Well, when we’re the reason you get scared
Consider that we’ve never fared
Better than the fights in which we gave our all.

And when you’re the reason I get cross
I’ll consider that we never lost
The wish to make things right when it mattered most of all.

But don't walk away, and I won't walk away.

Well when I’m the reason you get mean
Consider if you’d never seen
That bunch of flowers twice the height what I thought we could find.

And when we’re the reason you must leave
Promise, girl, that you’ll believe
Yourself and not my stuttered pleas for you to change your mind.

But don't walk away, and I won't walk away.

But if I ever wonder why
I love you
Just open up one bright brown eye and I will surely find.

That the way I feel inside will sure
Remind me who it is that makes
The butterflies within my stomach twist and turn and dive.

But don't walk away, and I won't walk away.

I want a long life
Yeah, a long life
A long life for you and me
I want a long life
Yeah, a long life
A long life for you and me

[Verse 2]
Well the years are slipping by me
Like fish in a silver stream
Can’t seem to catch ‘em baby
And I wish you were here with me
So I hope you can believe in me
Even though it’s gotten so damn hard
To be counting down the days until we get to
Wake up in each other’s a-rms

I’m looking for a long life
Yeah, a long life
A long life for you and me
A long life
Yeah, a long life
A long life for you and me

Everybody needs everything right now
Broke that wishbone in the garden
Swore we’d make it somehow
So I can wait I’m in no hurry to finish our

Long life
Yeah, a long life
A long life for you and me
A long life
Yeah, a long life
A long life for you and me
A long life for you and me
A long life for you and me