Living In Your Letters

[Bracketed words indicate differences between actual lyrics and linear notes.]

I’m always assuming the worst,
but you’re going on nonetheless
and there’s nothing to cushion your heart-led fall.

Letters from further away
keep pulling me close [closer] to home.
And there’s something to soften [cushion] my callous sighs.

And I know that you hope for longer good-byes,
embracing for forever and falling in your eyes.

Pouring over photographs.
I’m living in your letters.

Breath deeply from this envelope
it smells like you and I can’t be without that scent.
It’s filling me with all you mean to me.

Continually failing [all] these trials
but you stand by me nonetheless
and you won’t let me sink though I’m begging you.

Phone calls from further away
and messages on my machine,
but I don’t ever tell you this distance seems terrible.

There is no need to test my heart with useless space.
These roads go on forever.
There’ll always be a place for you in my heart.

So I’ll hit the pavement, it’s gotta be better than waiting
and pushing you far away cause I’m scared.
So I’ll take my chances and head on my way up there,
cause turning to you is like falling in love when you’re ten.