False Start Lyrics

I will take everything

But everything comes with a price

I will leave quietly

And I will leave nothing behind

It's easy to know when you're having a good time

But sometimes a good time can stumble along at the wrong time

From "happy-in-public"

To half-hearted telephone calls

We'll make concessions

While I'm making no sense at all

Sometimes I find it's a terrible time trying to find you

I find it's like blindness as he's out there working to hide you

(False starts

Facial scars

Endurance test

The long dark

Humourless

Homesick

Fight the urge

I'd rather quit)

By very small increments

Your platitudes pull me apart

I sink into thinking

By now I know nothing by heart

There's only so long I can fake being happy

And I swear to god now that I don't really need to be happy

(Fading beauty

Torn apart

Moving target

Dodge and dart

Temperamental

Need to think

Urge to fight

Too much to drink)

I will keep changing

I know who I'll be if I stop

And I'm loathed to be looked at and loved

Over something I'm not

(When you get home

I won't be found

If the neighbours ask

I've gone to ground)