Out of Phase

I found your note beneath the kettle Three blue words and a crooked line You said the room felt like a prison I said the fault was probably mine Now every wall has learned your footsteps Every door remembers the sound I keep the window open wider Still your weather comes around Turn it up until the ceiling bends Say my name like you mean the end We were sparks in a paper town Build it high, then burn it down Turn it up, let the silence break Give me something I can take If I lose you in the noise tonight I’ll still see you in the light You and I, out of phase Running hard through the aftertaste No clean line, no safe way home Make a mess of the unknown You and I, out of phase Leave the mark that the years can’t erase When the whole world cuts to white Pull me back into the night Your red coat hung beside the radiator Rainwater darkened up the floor You laughed and called it temporary Then you reached for the handle of the door I had a speech prepared for leaving Every sentence neat and small But your eyes were full of traffic And I forgot the point of it all Turn it down until the windows shake Tell me which promise we can break We were wires under winter skin One small touch and the rush begins Turn it down, let the bright parts fade Keep the debt that we never paid If I lose you in the noise tonight I’ll still hear you in the light You and I, out of phase Running hard through the aftertaste No clean line, no safe way home Make a mess of the unknown You and I, out of phase Leave the mark that the years can’t erase When the whole world cuts to white Pull me back into the night You and I, out of phase Running hard through the aftertaste No clean line, no safe way home Make a mess of the unknown You and I, out of phase Leave the mark that the years can’t erase When the whole world cuts to white Pull me back into the night You and I, out of phase Even love can overload the frame No clean line, no safe way home We were never built to go alone You and I, out of phase Still I reach through the broken haze When the whole world cuts to white Pull me back into the night