Medicine Bottle Lyrics - Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters

Giving in to love 

And sharing my time 

Letting someone into my misery 

I told it all step by step 

How I landed on the island 

And how I swim across the sea 

And it crosses my mind 

That I may awake to a knife in me 

No more breath in my hair or ladies underwear 

Tossed up over the alarm clock 

Blood dripping from the bed to a neatly written poem 

Heartfelt last line reading 

There is no more mystery 

Is it going to happen, my love? 

There is no more mystery 

Is it going to happen, my love? 

"It's all in my head", she said, "Morning after nightmare" 

"You're building a wall", she said, "Higher than the both of us 

So try living life instead of hiding in the bedroom 

Show me a smile and I'll promise not to leave you" 

It happened under a rainy cloud 

Passing through the dark south 

We went into a big house 

And slept in a small bed 

I didn't know you then 

As well as you of me 

We talked of our sad lives 

And we went on separately 

And we went on separately 

I found your overseas souvenirs 

Holiday greeting cards 

Those long forgotten high school fears 

"It's all in my head", I said 

Banging on the piano 

I've not been so alone 

I thought, since kicking in the womb 

I drank so much tea 

I wrote my letters in kanji 

Around the block I walked and walked 

Pretending you were with me 

Not wanting to die out here 

Without you 

The hurting never ends 

Like birthdays and old friends, we forget 

That this fresh blood and bone is human 

Trading phone lines 

Trading lines 

Unwilling to face 

That love is found on the inside 

Not the outside 

And like a medicine bottle 

In the cabinet, I'll keep you 

And like a medicine bottle 

In my hand I will hold you 

And swallow you slowly 

As to last me a lifetime 

Without holding too tight 

I do not want to lose 

The thrill that it gives me 

To look out from my window 

And sky without houses 

From my world in my bedroom 

It's all in his head, she read 

In a girlfriend's self-help book 

It's all, 'cause he's making 

A war with himself 

Like two sides of a wall 

That separates two countries 

He shuts out the world he once knew 

To love you 

Not wanting to die out here 

Without you 

Not wanting to die out here 

Without you