love loses (idalia wins) Lyrics

Do you get red tide on the west coast

Do the dead schools of fish litter the sand

Or did you leave all the algal blooms back home

Is California just too perfect for that?

I'm a miserable shell of an artist

Too in love with the anger to change

And I hated how clearly you saw it

So now you're roped onto my shitty little stage

Oh, I know that it's a lot

I'm sorry, Marcy

No I'm not

As if you knew I'd be losing my shit over you

And the things that I thought we would do, it's true

I made my plans, and they stuck to my head

Like your hands on my skin

And they tell us love wins

The gall

The wit

The guts I had to believe it

Did you drive thirteen hours to see me

Or just to have it held over my head

Just a get-out-of-jail to make it that easy

To slough off the blame in the end

Oh, none of this has any basis

I don't know, I don't care, I can't ask

Past December it's all speculation

But I'd rather be angry than sad

So hit me like I'd guess you hate me

Bash my skull in 'til you make me

A bleeding sore ruining your carpet floor

You can scrub all you want, but that stain won't come out, I'm sure

It's so traumatic

Everybody in your building is an addict to the sin

And they tell us love wins

The gall

The wit

The guts I had to believe it

So drown me in the aquifer my love

Looks like those Florida summers weren't enough

To show you that I needed you this much

I am formless ash without your touch

Even if DeSantis won

I still wouldn't buy a gun

I don't trust myself not to do the things

Kurt Cobain had done

But maybe on a special night

Sometime early in July

Oh, my head could be your fireworks

I could make that hammer fly

Do forest fires leave the prettiest trees up

No, the fires only burn

And they don't really give a fuck

What a scam

What a shitty two-bit sham

Love wins? Some fucking winner I am

The gall

The wit

The guts I had to believe in it

Love loses in the end

And I learned that from you

You may not really hate me

But what else can I do

Already blew out my voice

Just begging for you

My only defense

These strings in my throat

I would tear them apart

Just to let you know

That when you can hear this

I get I was wrong

In misguidedly coping by singing this song

But it's all I can muster

It's all I can do

'Til the day that I die

I will be begging for you

So tell me it's useless

Tell me you're done

I'm not gonna force it or say that I've won

Marceline, I adore you

From the Spring to the frost

You don't have to come back

I already lost