Relics

You smelled like cigarettes and sorrows
When I was with you I never felt alone
You had a reckless heart from years of collecting scars
I should have known eventually you'd go
Eventually you'd go

There was a storm racing through your eyes
You said let's talk, but I already knew
There was a better ticket, with a better man, in a better town than this
If I were you, I would have left me too
I would have left me

I took a drive down to a house where we used to run away
I had the window down and every mile I'd toss a memory
Like relics of a moment I tried like hell to hold
My iron grip choked the life away
It choked the life away

There were reasons you were feeling hopeless
And why our love was dead and cold as stone
We spent a thousand hours, on a thousand nights trying to see the light
When we finally did we prayed for night to come, and dark to fill our souls

I took a drive down to a house where we used to run away
I had the window down and every mile I'd toss a memory
Like relics of a moment I tried like hell to hold
My iron grip choked the life away
It choked the life away

I took a drive down to a house where we used to run away
I had the window down and every mile I'd toss a memory
Like relics of a moment I tried like hell to hold
My iron grip choked the life away
It choked the life away