Verse 1: I'll never again pass a motel in Seattle Without a brain rattle and memories I can't battle I should have stayed there where streetlights fade Instead of the one by the airport runway Those July weeks—unique bleaks Extended, pretended to mend what was breaking Couple more days in a haze, ablaze Fourth room like a tomb where my doom loomed Chorus: Every motel mirror shows What I left behind, what nobody knows Cheap plastic blue linings hide what I threw Between me and the wall, between me and you Verse 2: Forgot to tip the maid each time I moved She had to clean the mean scene I approved Take-out break-out boxes, evidence stacked And Smirnoff bottles where my thoughts cracked Carefully thrown where no one would care In little plastic trashcans, emotions laid bare Hidden under worn wood desks that witnessed it all I used to scrawl tearbursts too broken to call Chorus: Every motel mirror shows What I left behind, what nobody knows Translucent blue linings hide what I threw Between me and the wall, between me and you Bridge: Me—propped slantingly Liquidly sinking Between episodes of whatever Keeps me from thinking Lumpy pillows, bruised and used A barricade for the truth I refused Verse 3: Unreadable words like birds in flight Netflix glow the only light Whateverflix, clever tricks Never fix what's severed, mixed Between me and the wall Where scenes fall and crawl Through memories that call From that Seattle motel hall Final Chorus: Every motel mirror shows What I left behind, what nobody knows Translucent blue linings hide what I threw Between me and the wall, between me and you Between me and the wall, between the truth and you
