Past Lives Lyrics

You and I we're one in the same

You look down when the floorboards creek

And jump a little

When someone calls your name

One night we stayed up talking

I was sure I was you in a past life

All the thorns in your mind

Are the same ones I tried to cut out of mine

But I feel them growing back

Too rapidly to counterattack

My penance for sitting idly by

Watching all your azaleas die

I swear I was done with my past life

Swear all the baggage was left on the flight

I swear I ended my civil war

Guess a good opponent always comes back for more

I swear all the psychological warfare

Didn't nest it's propaganda in my hair

Swear I scraped off that part of my soul

Just like I swore to you

Past lives stay behind you

They don't hunt you and find you

Guess swearing doesn't make it true

We can stop here

By the pine and the moss

Make a couple bad jokes

And have one of those nights

Where we get high and talk

I remember in the summer

I envied you living my past life

What kind of failure

What kind of loser

Sees a garden turned to a wasteland

And applauds it's demise

But I feel it falling back

Too rapidly to counterattack

My penance for sitting idly by

Watching all your azaleas die

I swear I was done with my past life

Swear all the baggage was left on the flight

I swear I ended my civil war

I guess a good opponent always comes back for more

I swear all the psychological warfare

Didn't nest it's propaganda in my hair

Swear I scraped off that part of my soul

Just like I swore to you

Past lives stay behind you

They don't hunt you and find you

Guess swearing doesn't make it true