Wilt Lyrics

I've spent hours plucking petals off of flowers

It's this sod preoccupation I occasionally do

Odd or even, in or out of season, there isn't any reason 'cept that love can be cruel

When you laughed it was heaven and a half

Your merest mention struck a chord like Rachmaninoff

If that's too aural, a little bit too floral, I'm man enough to recommend I go pluck right off

There's a flower pressed up to the window and it's got an unquenchable thirst

A little sunlight and crowd-sourced affection and the clouds may just burst

Maybe one day I'll break the gray rainbow

And grow you out of my mind

But until that time, honey, don't be surprised if I wilt

We made love, we made love then you betrayed love'll

Call a spade a shovel and dig somewhere new

You planted lies, I got older but no wiser and your furtive fertilizer piled up around you

There's a flower pressed up to the window and it's got an unquenchable thirst

A little sunlight and crowd-sourced affection and the clouds may just burst

Maybe one day I'll break the gray rainbow and grow you out of my mind

Because life will go on on this side of the lawn while I wilt

If I've got delusions of grandeur

A little bit of history has torn me all apart

And what that's lacking in candor has canonized my dignity and humbled my heart

I've spent hours picking at my fatal flaws

I'm worthless and I'm useless and I'm stuck in a rut

I know my part in the building of your garden

And next time that I'm starting I'll nip it in the bud

There's a flower pressed up to the window and it's got an unquenchable thirst

A little sunlight and crowd-sourced affection and the clouds may just burst

Maybe one day I'll break the gray rainbow and grow you out of my mind

Because I'm just a weed with no way out indeed if I wilt

Because life will go on on this side of the lawn but until that time honey, don't be surprised if I wilt