Burned Is The House Lyrics - Alkaline Trio

It's like we both had just arrived here 

Like we both stepped off a plane in a new town 

And the sun was out 

I would talk and you would point your ear at me 

Like I was making some sweet sound 

You said to make it loud 

But we can never come back here again 

We can only hope to forget 

Walked through a cemetery archway 

To a wood that hummed so happily along 

But the words were all wrong 

You traded all my ill affections 

For directions to a party across town 

You bring the house down 

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But we can never go back there again 

We can only hope 

So, burned is the house, gone is the street 

Here is the same disappointing retreat 

And I need it like hell, if I'd lie to myself 

To think I could live that life over again 

When the cuts were like guilt, and the taste for your eyes 

I'd say we're up when I couldn't just say goodnight 

If you'd cry me a river you could baptize me in 

I'd say I guess that's it, now I've fucking seen everything 

You were the first real choice I would make 

But we all make mistakes 

Jumped overboard because the water's always greener 

When the sun shines on the sea 

Would you drown for me? 

It's just as deep as you can make it 

You tread water when you could stand on your knees 

But don't pray to me 

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Cause when the last ray's taking on again 

It will you leave you dead 

But, but burned is the house, gone is the street 

Here is the same disappointing retreat 

And I need it like hell, if I'd lie to myself 

To think I could live that life over again 

When the cuts were like guilt, and the taste for your eyes 

I'd say we're up when I couldn't just say goodnight 

If you'd cry me a river you could baptize me in 

I'd say I guess that's it, now I've fucking seen everything 

You were the first real choice I would make 

But we all make mistakes, oh