Better

Lips were painted cherry red
 And there are fossils in my head
 You were young and full of dread
 Bathsheba of the strip mall set
 We knew vampires in our time
 Cutting in the bathroom line
 Looking bored and rolling eyes
 Ain't pharmaceutically inclined
 Latchkey love and stolen pills
 Looking for a cheaper thrill
 Retrofitted Greek myth swill
 And in your hair a daffodil
 We could not have foreseen such light
 In your hazy, basement eyes
 Headphones in and thrift store leather
 Ask me why I care
 I thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better
 Better
 Better than that
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 You will be missed when you go
 If you ever leave at all
 Hedonism's restrained thaw
 Is flooding towns and clenching jaws
 Are you good to drive? You're in a state
 Hometown script is "I'm okay
 I'm sticking to the old highway"
 Suburban cops with empty plates
 There's a fire that burns today
 It's raging under K and A
 I look back at descending wraiths
 And remnants of the failed state
 I knew you then and I know you now
 But at some lost point you became un-tethered
 Pent up lusts and housing busts
 You ask me why I care
 I thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better
 Better
 Better than that
 
 I thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better
 Better
 Better than that
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 I thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better
 Better
 Better than that
 ♪
 I thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better
 Better
 Better than that
 All I know
 You said you'd lay low
 
 Cold halo
 It shows
 Your way down
 All I know
 You said you'd lay low
 Cold halo
 It shows
 Your way down
 All I know (Always)
 You said you'd lay low (So safe)
 Cold halo (Always)
 It shows (Always)
 Your way down
 I thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better than that
 Thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better than that
 Thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better than that
 Thought you knew me better
 Better
 Better than that