Sugarcoat (Avon) Lyrics

Working towards the door, spare every step

Confide the secrets held with all who are left

Looking through the keyhole, seeing people at the door

Brace the shaking knob to what I can't expect

Fall to knees to quiet, so they can't detect

Cold around the curtains, and upon my neck

Hands on shoulders, thumbs, and toes, sharing breath

Single nail of distance, not an eyelash out of place

Rasp a single line that I'd soon forget

And our faces fit together and that's how we slept

Lure the timid inches into your bed

Grabbed onto a look I gave, gray, half-dead

Calmer Sunday evenings, something that I wish we knew

But your voice cracks over whimpers prevailed instead

Threw keys and clothes at me no matter what I said

Called me in the morning, said you didn't know what to do

And an hour later I was there, holding hands

And you apologized to me, hated to demand

Any attention of fighting over self-fragility

But the calmness of your voice was a nice contrast

And I moved all introspection to dead last

Tried to leave the bedroom, but I couldn't get out the door

Hard to see there's more than yelling when your eyes are on the floor

And I pick them up to notice

All the things I couldn't recall

Too many times to drive to Avon

Too many cries in bathroom stalls

And I relive doors are locked again

What did you do to me?

There's no way to sugarcoat it

No way to beat around the bush

And I miss you, that's the issue

Never go back, I should know that

All the misused muscle tissue

From the fighting, from the biting

Is it strange that it's been this long?

Recently knew I was abused

Working towards the door, spare every step

Confide the secrets held with all who are left

Looking through the keyhole, seeing people at the door

Brace the shaking knob to what I can't expect

Brace the shaking knob to what I can't expect

Fall to knees to quiet

Fall to knees to quiet

Fall to knees to quiet

Fall to knees to quiet, so they can't