Andrea Gibson, Emily Saavedra - Prism lyrics

My friend Derrick says "Love is the
Only war worth dying for"
But every time I say "Please come
Back" I feel like I’m trying
To find a dirty needle in
A haystack, and God knows
I can’t go out like that
I suppose we wear our traumas the
Way the guillotine wears gravity
Our lovers' necks are so soft
I lost my head so many times
I got sober just hoping my eyes would dry
Still I drink so much in my sleep
I can't sleepwalk a straight line
To the guest room
Where collapse hangs so heavy
Inside her lungs, she speaks
And her voice trips across her heart beat
Each word limps into the air
"We are gone" she says and I am no mortician
I have no idea how to put makeup on the dead


I have no idea how to un-erase
So I just puddle at
The door, my face looking like
A deck of falling cards
Like everyone's been playing me
We tried so hard
But when I said "Give me a ring"
You thought I meant a call
Now I haven't had your number for
Three years we've been saying "how
Many times are we gonna keep cutting
These red flags into valentines?"
You know, all those wars we fought
Have turned our shine into rust
Now we can't even touch each other's
Hearts without a Tetanus shot
We can't begin to remember what we forgot
There is no shelter in the womb
The heart forms long before the ribcage
My mother swore she
Could feel me kicking weeks
Before my feet formed
That's how hard my heart beat
And it still does
But they say the womb is where
You learn that the cord
That feeds you could at any
Moment wrap around your neck
I hold my breath for the entire
56 seconds it takes her
To walk to the window, to stare at the road
To tell me she has nothing left
To tell me we are done carrying our
Level heads in our tornado chests
And for the first time i know she is right
As the dawn after our first date
We were so young
I hadn't written an honest love poem yet
Hadn't met anyone I could fall so hard for
'Til the night we kissed on our skateboards
You teased me for going so slow
I said I never wanna catch up
To the letting go i want the plead in my
Throat to forever anchor
My spine in the seams of your worn slippers
Love even when that dove crashed
Through the window
Even when our friends said You
Can call it love but, you know
Einstein called himself a pacifist when
He built the bomb
When they’d ask why we stayed
Together for so long I’d
Say I don’t know i just know we cried
At the exact same time in every movie I know
We blushed every day for the first two years
I know I always stole the covers
And she never woke me up
I know the exact look on her face
The first night she used my toothbrush
The next day I brushed my
Teeth like thirty-some times
Because I didn’t want to let her go
You have to understand
When it hurt to love her
It hurt the way the light hurts your
Eyes in the middle of the night
But, I had to see even through the ruin
If what we were burying were seeds
There were so many plants in our house
You could rake the leaves
Even through that Winter when I was
Trying to make angels in
The snow of your cold shoulder
You were still leaving love notes
I’d always find them
The day before I left I remembered a
Story her mother once told me she said:
Andrea, when Heather was a little girl
She could not fall asleep without
Tying a string around
Her finger which stretched to mine in the
Other room all night long, she’d give
That string the tiniest tug, to
Make sure I was still there
And when I tugged back
That was love that was love as
Easy as that sometimes sometimes