The Affordable Housing Act Of 1853

Pay my heart the rent

Cause I’ve been holding this space and your name is still on the lease

Said your love was spent

In a broken down place all alone with your empty sheets

“Did you ever know me?

It’s like I’m talking to a glass”

Well you never told me

About this box of photographs

But I look through them now and again when it’s lonely

Oooooooh

I never knew about the time you spent abroad

Or the time that you found god

“Leave the past behind”

You say you’re talking ‘bout things, but I know that you really mean me

Now I spend my time

In a broken down place meeting you in your memories

“Did you ever know me?

It’s like talking to a glass”

Well you never told me

About these journals that you had

And I read through them now and again when it’s lonely

Oooooooh

I never knew about the time you spent abroad

Or the time that you found god in the notes of a book in your basement

Oooooooooh

What should I do with all your things now that you’re gone?

Or the songs that I’ve begun about you and your face and the sunset?

Don’t believe that they all should be wasted

Are they wasted?

Did I waste your time?

Did I pay no mind?

To the stranger in my life?

And do you still go out sometimes?

To float across the Sound?

To get away from all the noise on the currents of this town?

I’d meet you there sometime

And shut my stupid mouth

To listen to you

To listen to you

Ooooooooooh

I never knew it was your dream to play guitar

Or how you got that scar on your wrist that you hide with your bracelet

Oooooooh

I never knew about the time you spent abroad

Or the time that you found god in the notes of a book in your basement

Oooooooooh

What should I do with all your things now that you’re gone?

Or the songs that I’ve begun about you and your face and the sunset?

Oooooooh

I never knew (I never knew, I never knew)

Oooooooh

What should I do?

Oooooooh

I never knew

Oooooooh

What should I do with all your things now that you're gone?