California

It took awhile for you to settle down, settle in

You took the cinnamon and washed it out of your mouth

And when the guillotine came down, it snapped over my neck

Still once you looked away, you were gone

There's only diligence in those who try to cut you down

And once they do, the tremors echo coast to coast

And when you dream

Do you wake up soaked in red-colored sweat?

Love seems so far away from anything you want now

There's a part of me that never wants to see you again

And there's a part of me that needs you now

I don't know why my brain was wired fifty-fifty, but now

It seems I'm the only one oblivious

It's spreading like a disease, that's what you wanted

When it was here, now it's the curse you got

And when you fled to California, I was somewhere at home

Just trying desperately to brush it off

Sucked out the venom and you spit it out of your mouth

But I'm not sure I wanna die slow

My heart's still broken

But something would have done it somehow

Some things just never end up like you thought