Grace Lyrics - Small Steps, Heavy Hooves - Dear And The Headlights

Shaking my teeth loose on your table 

The dullest white squares I'll never be 

Now that you've picked each one apart you can't look at me 

I'll probably lose you now 

But at least the ones I have still sparkle 

Putting on your makeup everyday before he wakes up 

So he could stomach your face now easier than he could without 

Yeah this is love 

This is all that you could want 

Open equals heavier 

Hold your hand out palm side up 

Open, empty, light enough 

Minutes all turn to months 

This is one thing we have all learned 

Equations always make up a sum 

But it doesn't add up 

Signing up for that second semester 

Because you won't marry me without the degree 

Once I fix things up right you wont be so embarrassed of me 

But I'll never make it now 

But at least looking in the mirror wont feel like lying 

Posing for your still visions 

Acedemic postcard prisons 

Raise your chin, love 

Purged a poem I swore was finished 

Heaping lines half chewed unconscious 

Settle on a plot, chalk another loss 

Stage set for 

Breathing and choking on swallowed conversations 

Clutching and crawling for constant validation 

Still nailed in the ruins of corporate co-dependence 

Still stuck on the thought that you're the one exception 

All the while the same 

I'm worried that the purpose is 

How I look, not how I lived 

Let's get dolled up and play pretend 

Cause nothing stays honest when 

Every thought is cursed with intent 

A pulse covered in skin and words covered in lips 

The taste of regret as it leaves your stomach 

Coating your tongue with every noun 

Watery eyes the only thing that makes sense now 

Spitting your insides out 

Start over 

Start over 

Start over 

Start over 

Start over