By Omission Songtext
I can't be mad
We gave too much for it to distill down to that
A golden ticket, picket fence now painted black
I bribe the reaper but he just saved us for last
So now the universe is easier to blame
'Cause I still shudder any time I hear your name
But keep the photographs
A sucker for the pain
I keep my hand
We gave too much for it to distill down to that
A golden ticket, picket fence now painted black
I bribe the reaper but he just saved us for last
So now the universe is easier to blame
'Cause I still shudder any time I hear your name
But keep the photographs
A sucker for the pain
I keep my hand
On the stove I am
A true revisionist
Mythologizing us
So what I remember isn't
Compromised
I am preserving by omission
Well, do you ever
Think about how once nobody knew you better
Or how a part of who I was is gone forever?
She was a cautionary tale and such a pleasure
A silver lining with a sick metallic taste
Once you name it, you can never be the same
What a blessing and a devastating weight
I keep my hand
On the stove I am
A true revisionist
Mythologizing us
So what I remember isn't Compromised
I am preserving by omission
Blind eyes are dangerous to borrow
As our old undoings decorate the room
Parade around in new perfume
Fatal bolt from the blue
The hardest pill to swallow
Is that declaration doesn't make it true
I thought that I would marry you
I thought that I would
I forget how you laugh
But I still know your number
And part of me knows
You're glad that I suffered
I dig 'til I'm hollow
Fossilize the proof
That it was still love
Even if it turned cruel
A true revisionist
Mythologizing us
So what I remember isn't
Compromised
I am preserving by omission
Well, do you ever
Think about how once nobody knew you better
Or how a part of who I was is gone forever?
She was a cautionary tale and such a pleasure
A silver lining with a sick metallic taste
Once you name it, you can never be the same
What a blessing and a devastating weight
I keep my hand
On the stove I am
A true revisionist
Mythologizing us
So what I remember isn't Compromised
I am preserving by omission
Blind eyes are dangerous to borrow
As our old undoings decorate the room
Parade around in new perfume
Fatal bolt from the blue
The hardest pill to swallow
Is that declaration doesn't make it true
I thought that I would marry you
I thought that I would
I forget how you laugh
But I still know your number
And part of me knows
You're glad that I suffered
I dig 'til I'm hollow
Fossilize the proof
That it was still love
Even if it turned cruel
