[Intro - clean guitar, distant dark beat] [Female Vocals - soft melancholic] I used to talk to your picture at night, tell you the things that I couldn't say right, left your old jacket hanging by the door, like you might need it someday anymore. [Female Vocals - restrained] Everybody said eventually I'd heal. I hated them for making it sound so easy. I'd lie awake and bargain with nothing: I'd give anything. Anything. Just give them back to me. [Female Vocals - quiet] Then somebody knocked. [Heavy instrumental swell] [Male Vocals - tense rhythmic rap] Two seventeen in the morning, three knocks, look through the peephole and my whole body stops, same old jacket, same scar on the chin, same fucking face I buried back then. [Male Vocals - faster rap] Open the door and you say my name, same little pause, almost sounds the same, I touch your face, you're warm, you're real, and for one perfect second I forget how to feel. [Male Vocals - emotional shout-rap] I SAW YOUR BODY! I STOOD BY THE GRAVE! I SPENT TWO FUCKING YEARS TRYING TO BE OKAY! NOW YOU'RE IN MY HALLWAY ASKING TO COME IN— [Male Vocals - breaking] And God help me... I let you in. [Male + Female Vocals - heavy melodic chorus] I said I'd give anything to have you back again. I screamed it at the ceiling. I begged it from the dead. [Female Vocals - powerful clean] Now you're standing in my kitchen like you never fucking left. [Male + Female Vocals - strained] I got exactly what I wanted. So why am I scared to death? [Instrumental - distorted guitar, heavy beat] [Female Vocals - melancholic] You remember our first apartment. You remember that terrible bed. You remember the song that we hated and every stupid thing that I said. [Female Vocals - uneasy] But you don't laugh before the punchline. You wait until I'm done. You used to hate your coffee black. Now it's the only way you want one. [Female Vocals - building] You sleep on the wrong side. Write with the wrong hand. Call my mother by her full name. [Female Vocals - quiet] You know everything you should know. But knowing isn't the same. [Male Vocals - rapid rap] So I start testing little things, private jokes, old arguments, cheap gold rings, ask about the night we got locked outside, you answer every question right. [Male Vocals - increasingly frantic] EVERY. FUCKING. ONE. That's worse! Don't you understand? I wanted one mistake! One crack! One flaw! Something I could point at and say— [Male Vocals - shouted] THAT'S NOT WHO YOU ARE! [Male Vocals - quiet] But I can't. [Chorus - Male + Female Vocals] I said I'd give anything to have you back again. I screamed it at the ceiling. I begged it from the dead. [Female Vocals - soaring clean] You say you still remember every promise that we made. [Male Vocals - strained] But you say "I love you" like somebody taught you the phrase. [Break - piano and industrial pulse] [Female Vocals - soft] Maybe death changes people. [Female Vocals - melancholic] Maybe two years somewhere else would change anyone. [Female Vocals - quiet] Maybe I'm the cruel one for expecting you to come home exactly the same. [Female Vocals - breaking] Maybe this really is you. [Pause] [Female Vocals] That scares me more. [Breakdown - crushing guitar riff] [Male Vocals - furious shout-rap] I SAID I'D GIVE ANYTHING! I DIDN'T KNOW SOMETHING WOULD LISTEN! DIDN'T READ THE FUCKING TERMS! DIDN'T ASK WHAT COMES BACK WHEN YOU DRAG SOMEONE HOME FROM WHEREVER YOU GO WHEN YOUR HEART FUCKING STOPS! [Male Vocals - rapid shout-rap] ARE YOU YOU?! ARE YOU NOT?! ARE YOU SOMETHING WEARING EVERYTHING I LOST?! WHY DO YOU KNOW ME?! WHY DON'T YOU FEEL RIGHT?! WHY DO YOU STAND IN THE HALL AND WATCH ME SLEEP EVERY NIGHT?! [Male Vocals - screamed] WHAT CAME HOME?! [Instrumental stop] [Female Vocals - soft] You hear me shouting. You don't get angry. You just look hurt. [Female Vocals - quiet] Exactly how you used to. [Female Vocals - breaking] Fuck. [Heavy instrumental build] [Female Vocals - powerful clean] I loved you enough to wish you back from the dead. [Female Vocals - strained] Maybe I have to love you enough to let you be dead instead. [Final Chorus - Male + Female Vocals] PLEASE DON'T COME BACK! NOT A SECOND TIME! DON'T KNOCK ON MY DOOR! DON'T GIVE ME ANOTHER SIGN! I'LL CARRY THE GRIEF! I'LL LIVE WITH THE PAIN! [Male Vocals - shouted] JUST DON'T MAKE ME LOSE YOU— [Female Vocals - shouted] ALL OVER AGAIN! [Final Chorus - Male + Female Vocals] PLEASE DON'T COME BACK! IF I CALL OUT YOUR NAME! IF I BEG IN THE DARK, DON'T LISTEN TO A THING I SAY! I KNOW WHAT I WANTED! [Female Vocals - soaring] I know what it cost. [Male Vocals - raw shouted] SOME THINGS THAT COME BACK SHOULD STAY FUCKING LOST! [Outro - clean guitar, degraded beat] [Female Vocals - soft] In the morning, your jacket is gone. [Female Vocals - quiet] The front door is open. [Female Vocals - breaking] I don't know if I'm relieved. [Male Vocals - soft] Neither do I.
