[Verse 1] I woke up screaming and swearing in Spanish Clueless to the sounds and smells of people around me Washed my face in the cracked sink Walked a stained carpet, kissed your naked shoulder and I took to the street The trip home isn't is as it always was and always will be Was a stain of pleasant taste of you still in my mouth When I quit smoking I ran out of good reasons to leave the house [Pre-Chorus] The day breaks the skyline like it's not even there, gotta get as quick as I can back to safe or nowhere [Chorus] This isn't a healing process, I'm not on the mend I miss you, I miss you, I miss you terribly and I need to remember that my body's a machine, my body is a machine [Verse 2] And you look so tiny and scared in the kitchen doing the dishes on your little tippy-toes I remember before the wreckage I swung your arms from side to side Danced a waltz on the kitchen tiles and the last time that I touched you would be when I brushed your shoulder in the corridor of our old house
We kicked and screamed about whether I was gonna get my bunk back but what I was really saying was I still loved you and you were screaming, "get the f** out of my house" [Pre-Chorus] The day breaks the skyline like it's not even there, gotta get as quick as I can back to safe or nowhere [Chorus] This isn't a healing process, I'm not on the mend I miss you, I miss you, I miss you terribly and I need to remember that my body's a machine, my body is a machine [Verse 3] You said it was just another thing that you never explained to me I was pit-walking a median strip near my parents house - going about sixty And I flew for the first and only time in my life If they hit me, they hit me [x8] They hit me if they They hit me if they hit me [x8] They hit me if they