Evermore Lyrics
Evermore Lyrics
I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night   Guess I should've known from the look on your face
Rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife    Every bait and switch was a work of art
And if it was an open-shut case
I never would've known from that look on your face       The more that you say
Lost in your current like a priceless wine               The less I know
The more that you say                                    Wherever you stray
The less I know                                          I follow
Wherever you stray                                       I'm begging for you to take my hand
I follow                                                 Wreck my plans
I'm begging for you to take my hand                      That's my man
Wreck my plans                                           You know that my train could take you home
That's my man                                            Anywhere else is hollow
                                                         I'm begging for you to take my hand
Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)    Wreck my plans
Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in         That's my man
As if you were a mythical thing
Like you were a trophy or a champion ring                The more that you say
And there was one prize I'd cheat to win                 The less I know
The more that you say                                    Wherever you stray
The less I know                                          I follow
Wherever you stray                                       Begging for you to take my hand
I follow                                                 Wreck my plans
I'm begging for you to take my hand                      That's my man
Wreck my plans                                           You know that my train could take you home
That's my man                                            Anywhere else is hollow
You know that my train could take you home               Begging for you to take my hand
Anywhere else is hollow                                  Wreck my plans
I'm begging for you to take my hand                      That's my man
Wreck my plans
                                                         Hey, that's my man
That's my man
                                                         That's my man
Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)    Yeah, that's my man
They count me out time and time again                    Every bait and switch was a work of art
Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)    That's my man
But I come back stronger than a 90's trend               Hey, that's my man
                                                         I'm begging for you to take my hand
Wait for the signal and I'll meet you after dark         Wreck my plans
Show me the places where the others gave you scars       That's my man
Now this is an open-shut case
Champagne problems
You booked the night train for a reason                  Dom Pérignon, you brought it
So you could sit there in this hurt                      No crowd of friends applauded
Bustling crowds or silent sleepers                       Your hometown skeptics called it
You're not sure which is worse                           Champagne problems
Because I dropped your hand while dancing                You had a speech, you're speechless
Left you out there standing                              Love slipped beyond your reaches
Crestfallen on the landing                               And I couldn't give a reason
Champagne problems                                       Champagne problems
Your mom's ring in your pocket                           Your Midas touch on the Chevy door
My picture in your wallet                                November flush and your flannel cure
Your heart was glass, I dropped it                       "This dorm was once a madhouse"
Champagne problems                                       I made a joke, "Well, it's made for me"
You told your family for a reason                        How evergreen, our group of friends
You couldn't keep it in                                  Don't think we'll say that word again
Your sister splashed out on the bottle                   And soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls
Now no one's celebrating                                 That we once walked through
One for the money, two for the show                               And hold your hand while dancing
I never was ready, so I watch you go                              Never leave you standing
Sometimes you just don't know the answer                          Crestfallen on the landing
'Til someone's on their knees and asks you                        With champagne problems
"She would've made such a lovely bride                            Your mom's ring in your pocket
What a shame she's fucked in her head, " they said                Her picture in your wallet
But you'll find the real thing instead                            You won't remember all my
She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred                        Champagne problems
So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends              I sit and watch you reading with your
                                                               Head low
                                                               I wake and watch you breathing with your
                                                               Eyes closed
Who'll write books about me, if I ever make it                 I sit and watch you
And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm   And notice everything you do or don't do
fakin'                                                         You're so much older and wiser and I
And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own
                                                               I wait by the door like I'm just a kid
                                                               Use my best colors for your portrait
                                                               Lay the table with the fancy shit
                                                               And watch you tolerate it
                                                               If it's all in my head tell me now
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow                               I sit and watch you
I know my love should be celebrated
But you tolerate it
He did it                                                       No, no
                                                                He did it
Este's a friend of mine
We meet up every Tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine   Este wasn't there
Este's been losing sleep                                        Tuesday night at Olive Garden, at her job, or anywhere
Her husband's acting different and it smells like infidelity    He reports his missing wife
She says, "That ain't my merlot on his mouth"                   And I noticed when I passed his house his truck has got some
"That ain't my jewelry on our joint account"                    brand new tires
No, there ain't no doubt                                        And his mistress moved in
I think I'm gonna call him out                                  Sleeps in Este's bed and everything
She says                                                        No, there ain't no doubt
                                                                Somebody's gotta catch him out
"I think he did it but I just can't prove it"                   'Cause
I think he did it but I just can't prove it
I think he did it but I just can't prove it                     I think he did it but I just can't prove it (he did it)
No, no body, no crime                                           I think he did it but I just can't prove it (he did it)
But I ain't letting up until the day I die                      I think he did it but I just can't prove it
No, no                                                          No, no body, no crime
I think he did it                                               But I ain't letting up until the day I die
                                                                No, no
I think he did it                                                  She thinks I did it but she just can't prove it
No, no                                                             No, no body, no crime
He did it                                                          I wasn't letting up until the day he
                                                                   No, no body, no crime
Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was       I wasn't letting up until the day he
fifteen                                                            No, no body, no crime
And I've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene     I wasn't letting up until the day he died
Good thing Este's sister's gonna swear she was with me ("She was
with me dude")
Good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policy
Happiness
Past the blood and bruise                                          Honey, when I'm above the trees
Past the curses and cries                                          I see it for what it is
Beyond the terror in the nightfall                                 But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow
Haunted by the look in my eyes                                     Where you used to lay your head
That would've loved you for a lifetime
Leave it all behind                                                After giving you the best I had
And there is happiness                                             Tell me what to give after that
                                                                   All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness
Tell me, when did your winning smile                               You haven't met the new me yet
Begin to look like a smirk?                                        But I think she'll give you that
When did all our lessons start to look like weapons
Pointed at my deepest hurt?                                        There'll be happiness after you
                                                                   But there was happiness because of you too
I hope she'll be a beautiful fool                                  Both of these things can be true
Who takes my spot next to you                                      There is happiness in our history
No, I didn't mean that
Sorry, I can't see facts through all of my fury                    Across a great divide
You haven't met the new me yet                                     There is a glorious sunrise
                                                                   Dappled with the flickers of light
There'll be happiness after me                                     From the dress I wore at midnight
But there was happiness because of me                              Leave it all behind
Both of these things I believe                                     Oh, leave it all behind
There is happiness in our history                                  Leave it all behind
                                                                   And there is happiness
                                                 Dorothea
Ooh                                              Ooh
This place is the same as it ever was            I guess I'll never know
Ooh                                              Ooh
But you don't like it that way                   And you'll go on with the show
Coney island
Break my soul in two                             And I'm sitting on a bench in Coney Island wondering where did
Looking for you but you're right here            my baby go?
If I can't relate to you anymore                 The fast times, the bright lights, the merry go
Then who am I related to?                        Sorry for not making you my centerfold
And if this is the long haul
How'd we get here so soon?                       Over and over
Did I close my fist around something delicate?   Lost again with no surprises
Did I shatter you?                               Disappointments, close your eyes
And it gets colder and colder                           With a big cake, happy birthday
When the sun goes down                                  Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray?
                                                        A universe away
The question pounds my head                             And when I got into the accident
"What's a lifetime of achievement?"                     The sight that flashed before me was your face
If I pushed you to the edge                             But when I walked up to the podium
But you were too polite to leave me                     I think that I forgot to say your name
And do you miss the rogue
Who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?        I'm on a bench in Coney Island wondering where did my baby go?
Will you forgive my soul                                The fast times, the bright lights, the merry go
When you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?   Sorry for not making you my centerfold
'Cause we were like the mall before the Internet        Over and over
It was the one place to be
The mischief, the gift wrapped suburban dreams          Lost again with no surprises
Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring                Disappointments, close your eyes
                                                        And it gets colder and colder
Over and over                                           When the sun goes down
Lost again with no surprises                            When the sun goes down
Disappointments, close your eyes
And it gets colder and colder                           The sight that flashed before me was your face
When the sun goes down                                  When the sun goes down
                                                        But I think that I forgot to say your name
Were you waiting at our old spot                        Over and over
In the tree line by the gold clock                      Sorry for not making you my
Did I leave you hanging every single day?               Making you my
Were you standing in the hallway                        Making you my centerfold
Ivy
How's one to know?                                      Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones           Oh, I can't
In a faith-forgotten land                               Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
In from the snow                                        My house of stone, your ivy grows
Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow           And now I'm covered
Tarnished, but so grand
                                                        Clover blooms in the fields
And the old widow goes to the stone every day           Spring breaks loose, the time is near
But I don't, I just sit here and wait                   What would he do if he found us out?
Grieving for the living                                 Crescent moon, coast is clear
                                                        Spring breaks loose, but so does fear
Oh, goddamn                                             He's gonna burn this house to the ground
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine but it's been promised to another           How's one to know?
Oh, I can't                                             I'd live and die for moments that we stole
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland                  On begged and borrowed time
My house of stone, your ivy grows                       So tell me to run
And now I'm covered in you                              Or dare to sit and watch what we'll become
                                                        And drink my husband's wine
I wish to know
The fatal flaw that makes you long to be                Oh, goddamn
Magnificently cursed                                    My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
He's in the room                                        Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Your opal eyes are all I wish to see                    Oh, I can't
He wants what's only yours                              Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
                                                        My house of stone, your ivy grows
Oh, goddamn                                             And now I'm covered in you
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand          And I'm covered in you
So yeah, it's a fire                                  Oh, I can't
It's a goddamn blaze in the dark                      Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
And you started it                                    My house of stone, your ivy grows
You started it                                        And now I'm covered in you
So yeah, it's a war
It's the goddamn fight of my life                     In you
And you started it                                    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
You started it                                        Now I'm covered in you
                                                      In you
Cowboy like me
                                                   Your closure
                                                   Your closure
Gray November                                  And when I was shipwrecked (can't think of all the cost)
I've been down since July                      I thought of you (all the things that will be lost now)
Motion capture                                 In the cracks of light (can we just get a pause?)
Put me in a bad light                          I dreamed of you (to be certain we'll be tall again)
                                               (If you think of all the costs)
I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone   It was real enough (whether weather be the frost)
Trying to find the one where I went wrong      To get me through (or the violence of the dog days)
Writing letters                                (Out on waves being tossed)
Addressed to the fire                          But I swear (is there a line that we could just go cross?)
                                               You were there
And I was catching my breath
Staring out an open window                     And I was catching my breath
Catching my death                              Floors of a cabin creaking under my step
And I couldn't be sure                         And I couldn't be sure
I had a feeling so peculiar                    I had a feeling so peculiar
That this pain would be for                    This pain wouldn't be for
Evermore                                       Evermore
                                               Evermore (evermore)
Hey December                                   Evermore
Guess I'm feeling unmoored                     This pain wouldn't be for evermore (evermore)
Can't remember                                 Evermore
What I used to fight for