American Scene - Grip lyrics

rate me

When the heat breaks I still won't know where I belong

When the rain comes you'll be a thousand miles gone

Picture me sweltering in an august blacktop parking lot as

I'm trying to get some sleep

I was carrying the dingy ring my mother gave me when

I asked if we could talk and you just turned to face the wall

When the sun went down we washed the salt off of our skin

and promised not to think about tomorrow until we had to.

You said it takes slow strong steady hands to handle something delicate as

this

I feel like screaming my lungs out but I'm keeping my mouth shut

Picture me with my tongue between my teeth cause you don't want to talk.

I'll remember you when I point my body to the west because you said that

That you can tell the difference

From eastern states I'm calling time and time again

When I came home I found your lips all chewed up and eyes bloodshot.

I had my knuckles scraped and black and blue

If separate continents are exactly what we need then can we handle what

that means?

And now were sleeping to the sound of the way things won't work out.

I feel like screaming my lungs out but I'm keeping my mouth shut

Picture me with my tongue between my teeth cause you don't want to talk.

I'll remember you when I point my body to the west because you said that

That you can tell the difference

So we begin here at the end

The place the silence settled in and took a hold of you

It takes a toll on me.