Answering Machine Lyrics

You come home, humming ashes to ashes

You lay down, melt into the mattress

You see her in everything you do

It'll fade but you don't want it to

You fell and you haven't stopped yet

So you're learning how to live with it

A pretty girl with a nasty glare

Leans over the sink as she cuts your hair

Absence didn't make you fonder

Absence only made you hate

The monotone of her answering machine

And the way it says her name

Absence didn't make you fonder

Absence only made you hate

The monotone of her answering machine

And the way it says her name

In March, you made angels in the snow

Her breath felt warm on the tip of your nose

There was nowhere else for you to go

When one door opens another slams

closed

Like two mirrors kissing

Like two sisters sharing the same face

They call it the hedgehogs dilemma

The closer you get the more you want to get away

Absence didn't make you fonder

Absence only made you hate

The monotone of her answering machine

And the way it says her name

Absence didn't make you fonder

Absence only made you hate

The monotone of her answering machine

And the way it says her name

Absence didn't make you fonder

Absence only made you hate

The monotone of her answering machine

And the way it says her name

You always thought you'd grow up one day

Look at yourself and see somebody

Entirely new just with the same name

A clean conscience in a different body

Is it raining where you are?

Can you feel the cold I'm feeling?

It's the middle of March

I don't know why I'm still shivering

You sit on the shore of Spenser's Spit

Pitching rocks into the mist

She sits on Spencer's Spit

In the mist

You sit on the shore of Spenser's Spit

Pitching rocks into the mist

She sits on Spencer's Spit

In the mist