The Longer That I'm Out Here - Kevin Devine

The longer that I’m out here the better you sound

You’re scrunching up your face in this picture I found

And I’m chasing after you steadily losing ground

I don’t wanna forget so I’m writing it down

Have you ever?

No never never

I found that hard to believe

Let’s burn the furniture

To see how angry

The fire can make me

And you say that there’s someone

That you need to reconnect with

Some scarecrow from highschool

That you loved and never slept with

A baby with a pipedream

Playing hopscotch on your bandages

And I’m singing all these songs

While I sleep on your couch

I’m coughing up a lung

But I’m covering my mouth

And I paint you on the wall

Yellow, red, green, and brown

I miss you all the time

But I’m blocking it out

Are you better?

No never never

What does that say about me?

Now let’s break the smoke alarm

To see how scared

Locked windows can make me

You say there’s a stranger

Staring sideways in a deep freeze

A loner draped in ivy

Playing slumlord in his city dream

A faker with an art form

Pulling magic tricks

On the weak girls up his sleeve

And I’m choking right along

With the words in my throat

I’m falling back in love

With the letter you wrote

And I think that I was wrong

But I guess I don’t know

I figured that’ll I wait

Until you tell me so

The longer that I’m out here

The better you sound

You’re scrunching up your face

In this picture I found

And I’m chasing after you

Steadily losing ground

I miss you all the time

But I’m blocking it out

And the longer that I’m out here

The longer that I’m out here

The longer that I’m out here

The longer that I’m out here

The better you sound