Crash Cart

(album: marginalia - 2022)

Don't you think I know you kiss me just to pass the time?
Don't you think I know already that she's on your mind?
I'm not clueless in the way you tend to take me for
I'm just smart enough to know I shouldn't ask for more
Now you're crashing down familiar streets at eighty-five
Watch them blur into a shape that you don't recognize
Is that why you're always rushing with the two of us?
Are you scared of what I'll see if it gets clear enough?

But what if this is all that I get?
A love that's bleeding out from the start
So even if we're better off dead
I'll still wait around with a crash cart
'Cause, baby, I'm done taking chances with my heart

Mm-mm, mm-mm

So I wrap another day in shiny make-believe (Make-believe)
And let you call your toleration reciprocity (Reciprocity)
'Cause I, I would trade my flesh for hers if it would make you stay
I bet the bruises look much better on her anyways

And what if this is all that I get?
A love that's bleeding out from the start
So even if we're better off dead
I'll still wait around with a crash cart
'Cause, baby, I'm done taking chances with my heart

With my heart, my heart, my—

I'll breathe for the both of us
I'll breathe for the both of us
A machine for the both of us
I'll breathe for the both of us
I'll breathe for the both of us
I'll breathe for the both of us
A machine for the both of us
I'll breathe

What if this is all that I get?
A love that's bleeding out from the start?