[Verse 1]
Left the bar on your birthday and walked to church
You know I have a spare key
Let myself crack open that old piano
Wondering if you were missing me
Wondering if you even noticed me leave
[Pre-Chorus]
You, keep me in a box in your mind and I cannot breathe
You, lock up all the parts of your soul you don't want me to see
[Chorus]
Trust a great God has fallen
That toothpaste won't go back in
I asked him not to do one thing and that's the thing he did
Jealousy, self-centered fear
Yeah honey, I got 'em but
Hope, is hеre at the bottom
[Verse 2]
Got drunk in the showеr at 3:00am
Praying he would find me dead
Lay my body by that open refrigerator
Waiting for the light to appear
When I heard a voice inside my head
Saying you're as full of shit as he's ever been
[Pre-Chorus]
You lie by omission
Can't tell me if you were kissing or when
Ooh, I still lay next to you
Reached a mile across the bed for you but
[Chorus]
Trust a great God has fallen
That toothpaste won't go back in
I asked him not to do one thing and that's the thing he did
Jealousy, self-centered fear
Yeah honey, I got 'em but
Hope, is here at the bottom
[Outro]
Hope, is here at the bottom
(You, keep me in a box in your mind and I cannot breathe.)
Hope, is here at the bottom
Hope, is here at the bottom
[Instrumental interlude]
(You, lock up all the parts of your soul you don't want me to see.)
[Spoken]
The next step you take
Will be the furthest you've ever been from the Shire
Is what I said to myself, as I hung up the phone
There was something different in his voice
(You, keep me in a box in your mind and I cannot breathe.)
Complete apathy
I got in my car, and I drove, and I drove, and I drove
(You, lock up all the parts of your soul you don't want me to see.)
All the way to the Beach Boys Memorial in Hawthorne
I pulled over listening to "Caroline, No."
I cried, and I prayed
(You, keep me in a box in your mind and I cannot breathe.)
And then I kept driving with nowhere else to go
Man, I didn't want to go home
Not first
(You, lock up all the parts of your soul you don't want me to see.)
I didn't want to lay in that bed alone
Waiting to hear his key in that lock
Wondering when he'd come home
How I loved to hear that key
How I feared to hear that key
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