I met you in the rain, by the tram stop glass, coat soaked through, eyes like a broken past. You smiled too easy, like you knew my name, I should've kept walking, but I stayed the same. Your hands said "come closer," your words said "stay," I heard sweet poison in the things you'd say. Now my phone lights up and I feel that drag, every message from you like a weight in a bag. I knew you were trouble from the first glance, but I still went in for one bad chance. Tell me why I run when I know the sign? Tell me why your touch feels like crossing a line? I wear this bruise like a private crown, falling up the stairs when you pull me down. Wrong side of you (I keep coming back) Wrong side of you (black on black on black) Wrong side of you I knew it was true Still I fall, still I fall on the wrong side of you You never left a wound that I could point at clean, just little cuts in the seams between. A laugh in the hallway, a kiss, then cold, you took my soft heart and you bought and sold. My girls said "sister, he's bad for your head," I laughed like a fool and I went instead. Now every street I pass got your shadow there, in the bakery line, on the winter air. I hate that I miss you when the night gets thin, hate that I know how this ends again. Tell me why I run when I know the sign? Tell me why your touch feels like crossing a line? I wear this bruise like a private crown, falling up the stairs when you pull me down. Wrong side of you (I keep coming back) Wrong side of you (black on black on black) Wrong side of you I knew it was true Still I fall, still I fall on the wrong side of you Maybe I loved the damage more than I loved you, maybe I chased the poison just to see it through. Now the moon on the river looks hard and pale, I can hear my name in a siren's wail. So take your pretty lies, let them rot in the cold, I'm done bleeding for a hand I hold. Wrong side of you (I keep coming back) Wrong side of you (black on black on black) Wrong side of you I knew it was true Still I fall, still I fall on the wrong side of you
