Do you still drink rye and ginger, gingerly breaking my heart.
Finding your place in the dark, to everything that I loved when I was a kid.
I swear to god that I’ll never truly get over it.
I used to drink for the company and pleasure.
Now…
I drink for good goddamn measure that I don’t see your face like I used to see it.
I don’t see your face like I just need “it”.
I need your body and soul, I need you completely whole.
I need you bad like the bottle in the middle of the night, when I wonder why I didn’t put up a better fight.
I just want to know the person that I knew.
Goddamn I just want to know…
Do you still drink rye and ginger, gingerly breaking my heart.
Finding Your place in the dark, to everything that I loved when I was a kid.
I swear to god that I’ll never truly get over it.
Did I really make you that fucking miserable.
Was everything that I did that unforgivable.
The word I learned to late is “unconditional”.
There’s a message in paint upon your bedroom wall.
Pills aren’t working.
No more.
My body’s beaten and sore.
I need you bad like the bottle in the middle of the night, when I wonder why I didn’t put up a better fight.
I just want to know the person that I knew.
Goddamn I just want to know…
Do you still drink rye and ginger, gingerly breaking my heart.
Finding Your place in the dark, to everything that I loved when I was a kid.
I swear to god that I’ll never truly get over it.
Let me down easy.
Now I’m just trying to figure out how I’m still in love with someone I don’t know.
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