The Flinch

Maybe next year is the line that you hear

In the city I got stuck waiting

For something to give, so tentative

That mantra I just kept saying

Everyone around this cold hard town

Has a dream that they can't seem to quite run down

Your car gets towed or you run out of road

You learn how to fight but The Flinch just grows

But I don't want to look back now

Regret is like a street beat down

It keeps you on your knees

The ringing of that broken bell

It always seems to cast a spell

I know I flinched before

I ain't flinching anymore

She came along like one of those songs

That you hear and you can't stop singing

The Flinch started in like a phantom limb

That broken bell's always ringing

But I don't want to look back now

Or waste a lyric about leaving town

Her face is all I see, she's waiting by the sea

The ringing of that broken bell

It always seems to cast a spell

I was young and I flinched before

I ain't flinching anymore

Always stuck in my own way

Always falling down

Her song's the home I want to stay

It's like a brand new sound

I don't want to look back now

She's waiting by the sea

The ringing of that broken bell

It always seems to cast a spell

I was young I flinched before

I ain't flinching anymore

I ain't flinching anymore

I ain't flinching anymore

I don't want to look back now

I ain't flinching anymore