infidelity

Treat me like the colors that hate your hair
Fall for me even though you feel too scared
Stupid boy think I'd date him on a dare
Don't you know you can't win me at the state fair?

Arrogance runs deeply in your tree
It's just tradition for your family
Alcohol flavors your tea as it steeps
Daily dose ever since you married the weeds

I wish I'd known
When i married you for money
Infidelity grows
In your family like honeydew
Dew
I wish i had known that when I said I do
And lies burn
In your eyes like a fire
I shelved what I learned
To raise your childhood
Hood
From your family mount out in westerly brooke
Oh, no matter

Frozen in time in aisle 16
Shopping carts and magazines
Avoiding eyes and showing teeth
Time is a flaw I'm trying to keep

He sits in a house, he's covered in flames
Detectives are puzzled, he knows who to blame
He's covered in burns, but he looks just the same
He begs for growth and settles with change

I wish I'd known
When I married you for money
Infidelity grows
In your family like honeydew
Do I wish I had known that when I said I do?
And lies burn
In your eyes like a fire
I shelved what I learned
To raise your childhood
Hood
From your family mount out in westerly brooke
Oh, no matter

Once the wise men come
And they tell you how to think
And you drink what they say
You tell yourself that you're okay
Without them you'd drown anyway
Once a rich man said
That he loved the way I cried
So i sighed and sold my grief
I told myself I'll be okay
Without him I'd drown anyway
Once I woke one day
With a stranger in my way
Blocking all my mirrors
He told me that I'll be okay
Without him I'd drown anyway

Packing a bag feels too easy
Like everyone else I had to leave
Far too absorbed with how I'm perceived
A bang or break doesn't matter to me

I wish I'd known
About the lions and the tigers
That sit by my stone
Like a campsite to a firefighter
Fighter
Houses don't burn down when I'm gone and I'm the lighter