Shotgun (Demo)

The elephants we locked in the room
Have broken out and they're searching for you,
She was the straw that broke the camel's back,
And he's just a living heart attack,
He said she was the future and she was just looking back.
Fourteen years, but going on forty,
"I always knew you were gonna be the one for me," he said.
"I'll love you through detention,
And I'll love you till I die,
And you'll find no man more bitter or better than I"

I swear you'll be my only one,
When all the rest are all dead and gone,
Who'll sit right beside on your journey into the sun,
So if you're riding on, then I call shotgun,

She hopped on planes and travelled sea to sea,
After cutting him into half the man he would be,
She'd be a figment of his mind,
While in reality she'd just find,
Trouble
Amongst the rubble.
Each visit from her would slice him more than called for,
She'd leave, and then he'd slice himself some more,
Caught up in all her knots,
and wishing one would grab him round the neck...
(And he said)

"Your name, my sins, all branded in my skin,
So the coroner understands what a mess I've been,
And so once again, I see you've picked another one,
So give me a chance - let me call shotgun..."

I tried, so hard, to prove I wouldn't just be a start,
But the end, and every last bit between,
This long road's only half way
through, and I'm not the one buckled in,
Though I called shotgun.
I'm not your shotgun.

Though I swore I'd be your only one,
(And I called shotgun.)
You and him rode off into the sun,
(Though I called shotgun.)
And you look like you're having fun,
(So give me my shotgun.)
And so now I'll be the lonely one,
(My shotgun),
And the note will be the memory,
(My shotgun),
Of me and my,
(My shotgun).