James O'brien - Wanted To Ache

You wanted to ache, so you could join some stupid club
Harder to start out, maybe better to just join with something else

All your opposites, so young and always fresh
Leap to take you down and crush the bird's nest in your chest

Now you can hold your bitter candle to the face you thought you owned
But it won't work to blame bad fortune, your heart's closet packed with bones

We all saw you at the stage house, making light of what you've learned
And in the final seconds, baby, someone points and your hands burn

Now, as a refugee you wore red, tracing lines along that coast
All the postcards of your conquests stamped up, blacked out, sent to ghosts

Two departures, two reunions, that one time you bit the lip
To gauge the real reaction, would he bleed or give the slip

It was a minor irritation, you realized you'd lost
It was a fleeting glimpse of freedom, never counting up the cost

Well, there's a weather front out west now, jackal firemen fan the flames
I saw you running from the snowstorm, crying save me what's your name

Written by:
James O'Brien

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