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It Only Gets Much Worse

It Only Gets Much Worse lyrics by Nate Ruess. I was born before the storm My mother placed a dozen thorns The Sorrys and the Take it backs Lay silent in her...

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It Only Gets Much Worse

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I was born before the storm

My mother placed a dozen thorns

The Sorrys and the Take it backs

Lay silent in her folded hands

And head to headstone I just danced

Oblivious to consequence

As a morning sank into the ground

The highest branch I sought it out, oh

I didn't mean to let it go

I didn't mean to bruise

But I lost control

And when she said to me

It still echoes

All your love

May fade away

All you'll become

May all go to waste

So I can't stand to hear you say it hurts

When it only gets much worse

It only gets much worse

Oh, you caught me come to life

The moment when your eyes met mine

And from your bed, the sun came in

And till this day it never set

But years of this and used to it

I stepped out for some cigarettes

The neon lights they called me in

Her eyes like yours, just different enough

I didn't mean to let you go

I didn't mean to bruise

But I lost control

What didn't mean a thing

Destroyed us both

Darling

All your love

May fade away

All you'll become

May all go to waste

So I can't stand

To hear you say it hurts

When it only gets much worse

It only gets much worse

I couldn't quite believe

The ways to pull me down

And takes it's toll

I survived

The laws of gravity

These jaws of brevity

I will not let them sink their teeth

Into my soul

Whoa-oh

All I love

May fade away

All I'll become

May all go to waste

So I can't stand

Hear and say it hurts

When it only gets much worse

All I love

May fade away

All we'll become

May all go to waste

So I can't stand

To hear you say it hurts

When it only gets much worse

It only gets much worse

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