Measures of You

from Window Seat by Mixit Ashix

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lyrics

i've got to keep it tucked away
for everybody's health
cause i already know what you'll say
oh i know how it ends and it doesn't end well

well there's trail mix from my drunken state
to your doorway, and i hesitate
but i go
and the orchestra plays
whistling don't
but i do anyway
and i cannot look you in the eye
but that's not required
and i almost mention it, really, i do
but i can't light a match without starting a fire

you unfasten unbutton undo
and i'm swimming in measures of you
and i always think i'll be less lonely when we're through

i think you think me some kind of machinery
no heart no say just gears and springs no inbetweenery
i'll never be the book you read, the window seat, somebody that you need
i am just a wrinkled sheet

if i let it out of its cage
the canary will die
nothing is safe out in the open like that
and i buckle, but i never give, as you touch me,
oh, you rarely ask how i am

better off to leave it as it is
you'll be sorry if i ever tell the truth to you
if you ever feel a ghost of me or even something close to me
inside your head at night
shake it out before it bites
you cannot trust your feelings cause you're feelings can't be right

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from Window Seat, track released April 17, 2012

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