[VERSE 1] Nice tan, peach skin something restless underneath bare feet burning on concrete cheap wine, split lips little lies and little sips making promises we'd never keep we were young, we were gorgeous we were bored out of our minds and getting very good at looking otherwise [PRE-CHORUS] chin up eyes bright give them your good side [Chorus] taxidermy summer hold that pose everybody looks alive if nobody gets too close taxidermy summer sewn together; composed keep everything inside but what you choose to show something here has been dead something here has been dead (for quite some time) [Verse 2] we were sweet, we were vicious we were hard to resist we knew just when to hurt and just where to kiss we were sun-drunk and stupid with impeccable skin taking pictures of the outside so nobody looked in we had nothing to say and all summer to say it by August, even happiness looked a little taxidermied PRE-CHORUS] chin up eyes bright give them your good side [Chorus] taxidermy summer hold that pose everybody looks alive if nobody gets too close taxidermy summer sewn together; composed keep everything inside but what you choose to show something here has been dead something here has been dead (for quite some time) [bridge] the names, the dates the proof we were there the beautiful evidence that nobody cared and maybe that's living or close enough still you can make anything last if you're willing to kill it [Chorus] taxidermy summer hold that pose everybody looks alive if nobody gets too close taxidermy summer sewn together; composed keep everything inside but what you choose to show something here has been dead something here has been dead (for quite some time) [outro] August came. Nothing changed. The fruit went soft. We stayed the same.
