Ruin

I will bring you ruin

In everything I do

It’s never my intention but it happens all the same

It starts with love and comfort

Becomes a strength of will

But all that strength made rubble of those towers we built

Because brick by brick you built us

And I’d fill in the cracks

Nothing quite prepares you for

When they don’t come back

I wish I’d done things different

I wish that I’d been brave

I wish I’d known these stones were something I could save

Our mortar was your laughter

And you hurled curses at the land

Wе didn’t talk. We made universеs

Out of bitten lips and broken hands

And you said I love you less

Than when It all began

[Joey Batey]

And I said fewer

'Cause I make jokes to show how broken I really am

In the wreck of all we burnt

Stands our piano like a wound

I play our song

To see if it’s in tune

But you, you sit next to me

And your finger brushes mine

And I promise to be patient

And you promise to be, promise to be kind

'Cause brick by brick you built us

Of the earth, the silt and ground

We can rest, you say, in the pieces

Of what’s left, or of what what we’ve found

I wish I’d done things different

Oh I wish I’d made it right

But we’ll burn a hundred theatres

If it means we get the wallpaper right

I’ll brick by brick rebuild us

Out of hows and whys not whens

Nothing quite prepared me for

When that piano sang again

Tomorrow I’ll do things different

Tomorrow I’ll be brave

Tomorrow I’ll be brave

Tomorrow I’ll be brave

You’ll make me brave