[Intro] I live smaller You talk larger I walk in Already outdone [Verse 1] In your mouth I hold the door and I do not flinch at the cold In your mouth I laugh on cue and I know what to say In the room I am a man who lets a sweater keep its hold In the room I take the long road And I lose the day You have a version that stands up straighter than my spine He gets the orchard right, he gets the kitchen late I have been trying to meet him at the county line He never shows He only shows when you narrate [Pre-Chorus] If I am only good When you are the one who speaks Then say it to me Not just to the weeks [Chorus] Better in your telling Than I am in my skin Better in your telling Than the man you let back in Better in your telling That is a hell of a trick You made me worth the month I cannot make it stick [Verse 2] I should hate the shine you put on a night that also cut I should want the ugly minutes given equal air Part of me does Part of me wants to stay in that better cut Where I am the reason The early dark was fair You look at me now and you see the leftover walk The pictures down, the pile burned, the fight still in the jaw Then you tell the table how I was the whole block And I sit there Loving a man I never saw [Pre-Chorus] If I am only good When you are the one who speaks Then say it to me Not just to the weeks [Chorus] Better in your telling Than I am in my skin Better in your telling Than the man you let back in Better in your telling That is a hell of a trick You made me worth the month I cannot make it stick [Verse 3] Give me one night where the live one matches the kept No crowd, no lamp, no kinder edit in the way Look at this face and find the one you have not left Say I was that While I am here to take it If you cannot, then admit the story is the love Not the body in the chair, not the hands on the wheel I can live with being myth I cannot live with the shove Of almost being him And never getting to feel [Bridge] Make me real Or let me go Do not keep a statue And starve the man you know If October needs a hero Use my worst true day Or stop crowning a stranger Who wears my face your way [Breakdown] Say I was good While I can hear Say I was good Make it near Better In your telling Now Here [Chorus] Better in your telling Than I am in my skin Better in your telling Than the man you let back in Better in your telling That is a hell of a trick You made me worth the month I cannot make it stick [Final Chorus] Better in your telling I will take it if I must But look at me once Without the prettier dust Better in your telling If that is where I live Then open your mouth And let the live man in [Outro] Your story My body One name Two men You keep The better I keep What is left Then
