Like the Finish

This is "Like the Finish"

"Full of confidence except for in his eyes"
A line that would come back to bite me
Sit in this graveyard of an album
Wishing I were half as fine as what I'm writing

I rallied every time you hurt me
So in love with proving I was worthy

Go be a genius somewhere else, it's never why I liked you
Go build a life in Salt Lake City, I won't try to find you
Know you'll never hear the song I wrote for you
The one that went: "Like the finish, like the start of something new"

I almost died this time last August
You would know if you'd have asked
But you were making money
I don't think you're Satan's spawn, or too far gone, no
I just think you're really super twenty

And I am really super twenty-five
And I'm just grateful that I'm still alive, so

Go be self-centered somewhere else, I think it really suits you
Pretend that you don't know me, I'll realize I never knew you
Know you'll never hear the song I wrote for you
The one that went: "Like the finish, like the start of something new"

When I see you, oh, I get this funny feeling
Like I'm watching all my secrets walk around outside my body
I'm sore in places that I didn't know existed
'Til you couldn't say you're sorry
'Til you wanted and then didn't want me
Say you can't stand to hurt me
So instead you stab me then say I'm the reason that I'm bleeding out
I know you're listening and fidgeting
'Cause even now you don't understand what you're crying about

Today I screamed until my head hurt and I started laughing
You're not allowed to see the painful, sacred fun I'm having
Today I resolved to let completely go of you
And it felt like the finish, like the start of something new
The start of something new