Cheap Affairs

Dirty hotel laundry rooms

Old apartments, basic views

We are the kings, we are the kings

Never sleep and barely eat

We can hardly catch a dream

But it's better than that 9 to 5

No more cheap affairs

No more sideways stares

When I tell you where I've been last night

No more cryptic notes

Of when I'll be home

You know you're better off alone

I hate to tell you this

Over the phone

There was Portland and Columbus

That's twice in a year

Baby I'm a mess and you know

I'm out of control

I'm feeling crazy when I'm all alone

The kind of crazy that makes you start shaking

Saying things that you'd never say

Maybe I thought we had a shot

We'd get lost and burn up all of the maps

And watch the world fall away

Seven hundred "I owe you"s

Holidays and birthdays too

I've missed them all, I've missed them all

Failed attempts at rendezvous

This is just a dying cause

But we talked it out and made a truce

No more cheap affairs

No more sideways stares

When I tell you where I've been last night

No more cryptic notes

Of when I'll be home

You know you're better off alone

I hate to tell you this

Over the phone

There was Portland and Columbus

That's twice in a year

Baby I'm a mess and you know

I'm out of control

I'm feeling crazy when I'm all alone

The kind of crazy that makes you start shaking

Saying things that you'd never say

Maybe I thought we had a shot

We'd get lost and burn up all of the maps

And watch the world fall away

Judging by the look on your face

You don't get it

Like every word I said was abandoned grace

Staring at me like you're amazed

My bad habits are holding me up and away from you

Baby I'm a mess and you know

I'm out of control

I'm feeling crazy when I'm all alone

The kind of crazy that makes you start shaking

Saying things that you'd never say

Maybe I thought we had a shot

We'd get lost and burn up all of the maps

And watch the world fall away