Stock Photography by The Small Calamities Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Picture frames with plastic smiles, picket fences, porcelain tiles
The people who we want to be
The people who came in it at the store

[Verse 2]
But I could never be that man
I don’t know anyone who can
And you can say it’s fine but darling I know that you always wanted more

[Chorus 1]
Arrow point to metal edges
Replace ourselves with perfect moments
Torn off tops of moving boxes
I would go back if you asked me

[Verse 3]
I hear you laughing on the wire
I see your skin so pixelated
The world is ending anyway, so go on, leave me casually destroyed
[Verse 4]
But I am not the man I was
For example, now I have a beard
Now you are an unread text, and I am still your torn up little toy

[Chorus 2]
Cliched thoughts & empty phrases
Forged emotions, borrowed phases
Replace our past with empty pages
I would forget if you let me

[Bridge]
If you let me
Your red dress blends into the brick wall behind you
I tried amends but all it did was remind me of plasticine walls crumbling down around our orbit
Floodgates and a summer that I’m never gonna shake
All those days in a century before
With flowers in your hair and the silence when it gets to me
Is everything you meant to me
Been trying to repent for all the stupid things I said and all those things I never sent
If you let me

[Verse 5]
Picture frames with checkered shirts, perfect teeth and zero hurt
The people who we never were, the people who came in it at the store