Compliment

You throw away

The words they say

Yeah you throw me in a compost bin

Yeah you've got the smile

And you've got it all

But you can't take a damn compliment

In grade school

They told you

You could be anything

For the first time

And the last time

They told the truth

Then somewhere in the middle

The answer to the riddle made you

Wanna write songs

For the rest of your life

When you fell down

The words they'd say

Would break you down

Even more

So you throw away

The words they say

Yeah you throw me in a compost bin

Yeah you've got the smile

And you've got it all

But you can't take a damn compliment

You can't take a damn compliment

You can't take

You can't take

It's such a shame

What we do for love

Just to let it die

And the stuff we taste

Oh it isn't love

It's been sterilized

So you turn back

To a compost bin

You find me laughing so you settle in

Now words they say

Can't break you down

'Cause you're not alone anymore

Still you throw away

The words they say

Yeah you throw me in a compost bin

Yeah you've got the smile

And you've got it all

But you can't take a damn compliment

You can't take a damn compliment

You can't take a damn compliment

You can't take a damn compliment

You can't take a damn compliment