[Verse 1] I’m watching the Polaroid of us in October Slip another half-inch toward the floor. You’re in the hallway, finally sober, Checking the deadbolt on the kitchen door. The magnet is shaped like a state I’ve never been to, A souvenir from a girl you used to know. It’s doing the one thing it wasn't meant to It’s teaching me exactly how to let go. [Verse 2] You bought the heavy-duty paper for the grocery list, Like if we wrote it down, it might actually stay. But there’s a specific kind of gravity I’ve missed, The kind that pulls the center of the room away. Your hands are cold, but they aren't quite magnetic, And the air gap between us is starting to bloom. It’s funny how the end is always this pathetic Just a quiet vibration in a rented room. [Chorus] And it’s not that I don't want you, it’s just the physics, The iron is tired and the charge is spread thin. We’re looking for signs in the domestic statistics, But the metal is smooth and it won’t let us in. We’re just a low-grade pull, a temporary tether, Holding up a picture that’s already gone. Waiting for the slide, for the "all-together," For the sound of the paper hitting the lawn. [Bridge] I had a dream that the house was a junkyard, And I was a crane that couldn't lift a thing. You were standing there, looking remarkably unscarred, Waiting for the bell that I couldn't quite ring. What’s the point of the grip when the surface is failing? When the "aha" is just a long, slow decline? I’m over the edge, I’m over the railing, I’m just the wreckage you’re leaving behind. [Chorus] And it’s not that I don't want you, it’s just the physics, The iron is tired and the charge is spread thin. We’re looking for signs in the domestic statistics, But the metal is smooth and it won’t let us in. We’re just a low-grade pull, a temporary tether, Holding up a picture that’s already gone. Waiting for the slide, for the "all-together," For the sound of the paper hitting the lawn. [Outro] Just a slip. Just a slide. The magnet’s on the linoleum now. You can leave the light on. I’m already gone.
