Slender, you render me useless
Tongue-tied and in your eyes a mess
Correspondence so contagious
I’ve read it over not to forget
Thought I saw between your lines
Written me a dozen times
I wanted you like the winter
Craves a ray of sun to splinter
All the ice that has frozen under my feet on the ground that I’ve walked alone
Thinking you would be there when I got home
But she was in your bedroom all along
Your sheets bearing her perfume all along
It’s so hard to be around you
And to know that I must go without you
When she is in your bedroom all along
Saw in you the answer
To loneliness that grew like cancer
But should have kept to my old doubts
‘Cause you burned me, turned me inside out
And like the last cigarette that I stamped out in Seville
Wish I could give you up
And I tell myself that I will
But then I breathe you in and I am wrong
I feel you on my skin and I am wrong
It’s so hard to be around you
And to know that I must go without you
When she is in your bedroom all along
Turn away from all the things we could have laughed about
It’s nothing new, but disappointment I could do without
And all the lines half-hearted woven got me to believe
All this nothing would give way to something here for me
But all this time, I was waiting for you
All this time, you had to put me on for
All this time, the worst have no intentions
All this time, it’s not alright
‘Cause she was in your bedroom all along
Your sheets bearing her perfume all along
It’s so hard recalling how to
Calm the burning in my bones without you
When she is in your bedroom all along
credits
from Better for You EP,
released March 4, 2016
Written by Mori Einsidler
Produced by Mori Einsidler & Asher Zeitschik
Recorded and Mixed by Asher Zeitschik
Edited by Asher Zeitschik & Mori Einsidler
Vocals and Guitars by Mori Einsidler
Lead Guitar, Bass, Keys, Programming and Background Vocals by Asher Zeitschik
Drums by Steve Ranellone
Drums Asst. Engineered by Ira Senak at Flux Studios
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