The Bends Lyrics

This place, this house

These roads, this town

Am I here again?

This field, this tomb

I know all too well

These bends

'Cause I loved them, so I studied them

'Til I drove them, 'til I'd become them

Every curve, every golden line was mine

This place, this house

I'm back somehow

And it's hard again

I know you'll say it, "you can just remake it"

But they'll come and take it and plague it

It was mine first, it doesn't matter to them

I know you'll say it, "you can just remake it"

But I know they'll take it then break it

Heavy is the weight of this place

It wasn't always

This well, that breeze

That ghost, this tree

Like I'm under a spell

These locks, this room

I know all too well

How it felt

It was everything to me 'til I could never fall asleep

My own requiem for a dream

Don't speak

It changes nothing

This well, that breeze

I can't believe

That my heaven is hell

I know you'll say it, "you can just remake it"

But they'll come and take it and plague it

It was mine first, it doesn't matter to them

Does it?

I know you'll say it, "you can just remake it"

But I know they'll take it then break it

Heavy is the weight of this place

It wasn't always

This quiet but violent

These tyrants on staple diets

The fiction in their jurisdiction

Addicted to the crucifixion

Of you, me, and all who flea

Or try at least

Yeah, I tried at least

But they know my secret

My greatest weakness

This place

This place

This place

This place

I know you'll say it, "you can just remake it"

But they'll come and take it and plague it

It was mine first, it mattered to me

I know you'll say it, "you can just remake it"

But I know they'll break it

Heavy is the weight of this Goddamn place

It wasn't always

This quiet

Staple diets

You, me, and all who flea

Or try at least

Yeah, I tried at least

But they know my secret

My greatest weakness