lyrics: AImproviser ----- [Intro - Em C G D loop, clean jangly guitar, sparse glockenspiel, moody] [Verse 1 - Sparse arrangement, laid back and bitter] Ya' took the record player, left the shelf janky white rectangle against the wall. I'm runnin' the thermostat at seventy two. Nobody left to talk me down. [Refrain 1 - Full band enters, driving but restrained] Gonna have our differences, gonna live our life, gonna have the cost, gonna have my care, gonna have our love. (That's what I said.) yeah, that's what I said. [Verse 2 - Drums pull back to cross-stick, intimate and cold] It wasn't even loud. Ya' made da bed, rinsed your cup and left it in da rack. Looked at me the way you'd look at rain the morning of our wedding ya' didn't even look back. [Refrain 2 - Building energy, urgent] Gonna have our differences, gonna live our life, gonna have the cost, gonna have my care, gonna have our love. (That's what I knew.) Yeah, That's what I knew. That's what I knew! [Break - arpeggiated synth carries] [Bridge - Sparse and brooding, vocal exposed, building, falsetto] Counted on the cost. did the math. Budgeted for silence n' priced the strain. Planned for every version of the crash, every way that you might say my name. Never expected your disdain. (Never expected.) Never expected you walkin' out on me! (Walkin' out on me.) [Final Refrain - Full band returns, anthemic but grieving, bittersweet] Gonna have our differences, gonna live my life, gonna have the cost. Gonna keep my care. Gonna have said (!) love (!) (That's what it was.) That's what it was. [Outro - Half-time feel, glockenspiel hook alone, bittersweet, fading] That's what it was. (That's what it was.) all over now.. (That's what it was.) That's what it was. [end in a dustup]
