La Dispute - Stay Happy There lyrics

If I could play back every moment to you now
Spent lovesick and swollen on
Mornings mincing garlic on the
Counter by the sink
If I could hit the instant replay
On only every good day
Would any of it catch you by surprise?

When you say, "something is missing now"
That's what came back to me
Normal mornings like that set the knife down
And forget where I'd left it
Making breakfast
Put coffee on the stove then scour
Every counter for the knife don't be shy
Don't be kind
Somewhere snow collects and bends
The boughs of pines

But doesn't it seem a bit wasteful to you
To throw away all of the time we spent
Perfecting our love in close
Quarters and confines? Isn't it wasteful?
And I am terrified that it doesn't
Feel painful to me yet
Somewhere on top of the high
Rise there's a woman
On the edge of a building at the ledge
And traffics backing up on 35

It's alright i will fix whatever is not
The sweetness in your eyes just sit down
Please sit down
Here at the table and we'll talk
Somewhere televisions light up in the night

I know things weren't right
Maybe we were never cut out
For the Midwest life
Maybe we'd have done much better on a coast
There are certain things I
Doubt we'll ever know

I know you were getting tired of my drinking
I guess I was never cut
Out for the coke scene
You were worried I would end
Up like your father and
Tired of the smoke and
Somewhere the wind blows
Somewhere a storm touches down
North in Hudsonville

Somewhere the coffee starts to boil
On the stove and somewhere the wind blows

Somewhere the river levels
Finally getting low

Somewhere I'm up past dawn till
Somewhere you live here still
Somewhere you're already gone

Somewhere a radio is playing in a living room
Says the city lacks the funds
To fix the bridge

Somewhere the deer are overrun so they're
Introducing wolves back on the ridge

And from here in the kitchen
I can hear the neighbors in
The alley hanging linens
And the men collect the trash
Bins in the street you're speaking to me but
I can't understand you
The coffee is burning and
All of the times that we spent
That road trip out west
Through desert for the rest stops
The kit'sch we both collect
That winter the whole weekend we
Huddled by the stove the cabin I had rented
The unexpected snow that visit for Christmas
On television binges
We'll see friends in Brooklyn
Drive south to Richmond
There's traffic on the bridge
A woman on the ledge and everywhere the wind
Everything is happening at once