Face Flat Lyrics

Like a perfectly skipped stone, your whistle arrived at my shore

Absentmindedly trilling cadenzas as if you were bored

A couple days into this I announced envy

And you simply grinned like you normally do

That's the first time I knew I'd fall flat on my face over you

Soon formalities turned into dialogue, each word a charm

And I shocked at the warmth of your lean and the skin of your arm

Late bloomer blemishes, summer job sandwiches

Valedictorians meeting curfew

And I braced for the impact, falling flat on my face over you

The promise upon the horizon turned into the ledge

Stripes on a calendar marking the steps toward the edge

Just as I came to be finding some balance

You mentioned that someone had whispered to you

And you'd answered the whispers with the sweetest of whistles

And my face and my heart were both falling and flattened by you

We wear costumes for confidence, candor swapped out for cologne

I had thought my performance persuasive, but to each his own

Since the very beginning, the bottle's been spinning

I'm in the last inning and still down by two

And I fondly remember falling flat on my face over you

It's ridiculous how I fell flat on my face over you