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lyrics

isn't guilt a vicious lover
isn't time a gentle mother
i'd give anything for
one or the other right now

a lover to keep me in my place
or a mother to dry my face
i'd take guilt or gentleness
in place of this
in place of emptiness

how could you find no way out and no way in
why, when i was right there all the time, could you not know when to stop or how to begin
why would you lie alone in your room dying silent as sin

no one can
live in this house now that your gone
its full of lights that won't turn on
and you are the only one who made us smile

i'll strip your bed, put your pillow on the floor
box up your letters and leave them by the door
but i still don't believe you won't be coming back home

i can still hear you laughing
in the room upstairs where only you and i would go
i can feel you around every corner
every wall echoes with your hello
i can taste you in the air
i can smell the discontent of a restless soul
i don't know how to let it go, and I

guess its too late to be singing this song to you
doesn't that sound just like something i would do
i would do anything to bring you back.

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from How It Is (with bonus tracks), released October 10, 2010

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