[Intro] (One, two where'd you go?) (Ha ha!) [Verse 1] Peekaboo with the feeling Hands inside my ribs and I'm peeling You were here so the room had a ceiling Now it's sky, now it's teeth, now I'm small Cotton candy spine going hollow Sweetness only lasts if you swallow But you left for a glass of water And I forgot every word you taught her "Taught me" (who?) [Pre-Chorus] Checked my wrist like a watch but it's only a wrist Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing That's a lot of nothing, isn't it? (Isn't it?) [Chorus] Emotional permanence! I believe you love me when you're standing in the room Emotional permanence! But when you walk out, baby, everything goes boom And I'm convinced, and I'm convinced, and I'm convinced That every good thing was a flinch of the light Emotional permanence I don't got it, I don't got it right [Verse 2] Built a home out of "good morning" texts Furnished nice with your laugh on the steps Then you blinked no, I blinked And the neighborhood sank Foundations poured from "talk to you later" Crack like a cracker See you never, alligator [Pre-Chorus] Read receipt like a flatline on a screen Beeping, beeping, beeping stop That's the sound of me pretending that I'm not (Not what?) NOT! [Chorus] Emotional permanence! I believe you love me when you're standing in the room Emotional permanence! But when you walk out, baby, everything goes boom And I'm convinced, and I'm convinced, and I'm convinced That I invented every beautiful thing Emotional permanence I don't got it, I don't got it right [Bridge] (Spoken, increasingly frantic over detuned toy piano) Okay so hypothetically If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it Does the tree still feel loved? Does the tree check its phone? Does the tree rehearse entire arguments Where the forest says it never liked the tree at all? Well? WELL? (Breathe, breathe, breathe) Oh! You texted back! We're fine! Ha ha! We're so fine! [Verse 3] Serotonin on a month-to-month lease Joy with an asterisk, love with a crease Every silence is a little funeral Every pause is continental drift You coughed and I felt the whole world shift Orbit's only stable when you're holding it in place But you put your phone down for a second and I [Final Chorus] Emotional permanence! I know you love me, yeah, you told me at the door Emotional permanence! That was forty minutes back, do you love me anymore? And I'm convinced, and I'm convinced, and I'm convinced The sun's not real unless I'm looking at the sun Emotional permanence [Outro] (Slowing, warbling, soft) Come back, come back, come ba Oh. You were in the other room? ...Yeah. I knew that. (I knew that) (I knew that) (Ha ha) (Yeah)
