When You Like Me Best (Industrial Grunge Redux)

WHEN YOU LIKE ME BEST Verse 1 I think I should get some rest, Then your memory hits my chest. All the things I should forget Lead me back to your doorstep. You let me in, I lose my head, Drop my clothes beside your bed. You only love me half-undressed— Isn’t that when you like me best? Pre-Chorus When I’m too weak to walk away, Too lonely to make you stay, You pull me close, then pull the thread Until there’s nothing of me left. Chorus Isn’t that when you like me best? When my heart’s outside my chest, When I’m lying in your bed Believing everything you said. You don’t want love, you want the mess, The shaking hands, the silhouette. You only hold me when I’m wrecked— Isn’t that when you like me best? Verse 2 Morning comes, you turn away, Like we didn’t burn all night in flames. I ask you what this makes us now, You kiss my mouth and shut me down. I know the rules, I know the game: I take the fall, you take no blame. You call me only when you’re stressed, When you need someone to possess. Pre-Chorus When I’m too weak to walk away, Too addicted to the pain, You pull me close, then pull the thread Until there’s nothing of me left. Chorus Isn’t that when you like me best? When my heart’s outside my chest, When I’m lying in your bed Believing everything you said. You don’t want love, you want the mess, The shaking hands, the silhouette. You only hold me when I’m wrecked— Isn’t that when you like me best? Post-Chorus Like me broken, like me breathless, Like me begging for your tenderness. Like me helpless, like me obsessed— Isn’t that when you like me best? Bridge Maybe you don’t love me— Maybe you love the way I fall. Maybe you don’t miss me— You just miss having someone to call. Maybe every “come here” Was another kind of goodbye. You only want my body When you don’t have to want my life. Breakdown Hit the bed. Get undressed. Give you everything that’s left. Hold my breath. Take the rest. Isn’t that when you like me— Final Chorus Isn’t that when you like me best? When my heart’s outside my chest, When I’m tangled in your bed, Half alive and half misled. You don’t want love, you want the mess, A temporary emptiness. You only need me when I’m wrecked— Isn’t that when you like me best? Final Post-Chorus Like me broken, like me breathless, Like me begging for your tenderness. But I won’t die for your interest— You don’t get to like me best. Outro I think I should get some rest… Then it hits me in the chest. All the things I can’t forget— Standing at your doorstep.