Crooked Teeth

Candle wax on the carpet

Can't you get out

Of the part of my brain that I can't pronounce

You keep my head in the clouds like you're heaven-sent

As an atheist-cynic, I take offence

I put a stake in the ground, fired up a flare

Undid all of your knots like a Baudelaire

Showed you parts of me I thought were gone

You took apart the thing between my lungs

And I adore you, wanna be your best friend

Wanna rip up the horoscopes

Take the stars and rearrange them

Dig your past up, and dig my nails into your skin

Let my body capsize

'Cause I love the way you pull me in

Oh I see winter, I see summer

See your hand in my hand

See me as a mother

Love's cruel like a prom queen to the kid with the crooked teeth

But if you keep me smiling, I swear that I'll never leave

Oh, I know I've got many coats

And I'll go wherever the wind blows

But, darling, I'm a perennial

I'll come back every time that I go

Tell me what I have done

To give myself up like this for someone?

Won't you hold me like the sun

Light up my eyes in the dark

Watch as I slowly turn

'Cause I adore you, wanna be your best friend

Wanna rip up the horoscopes

Take the stars and rearrange them

Dig your past up, and dig my nails into your skin

Let my body capsize

'Cause I love the way you pull me in

Oh if I ever lose my sanity

You'll be the voice that'll bring me right back to me

Love's cruel like a prom queen to the kid with the crooked teeth

But if you keep me smiling, I swear that I'll never leave

I'd burn at the stake

Oh, I'd change my old ways for you, dear

Wanna live in a house that you build with your hands

So, if you disappeared

Darling, you'd still be holding me

You'd still be around

Strong like the walls

Standing tall in the ground

And I'd look out the window

Down by the lake

We're Noah and Allie out in the rain

You're the look in the hallway

The losing my cool

The face in my locker

The tears in the bathroom

Love's cruel like a prom queen

To the kid with the crooked teeth

Love's cruel like a prom queen

To the kid with the crooked teeth