Desperate Privy Lyrics

The house is a mess, the kids won't sleep

Hear your heart over my cell phone beeps


Hospital lights hum like a sad old song

I'm strong all day, but the nights feel long

You reach for my hand, say, I miss us too

I press my lips where the IV bruised

Love, I've been patient, but I ache inside


You whisper, Lock the door, just for tonight

Hold me like before, against the bathroom wall

Fingertips trembling, bodies gonna fall

Desperate, pathetic, but baby, it's real

I need you to need me, to touch and to feel

Steam on the mirror, tears on your skin

For a moment, we're fire then it's gone again.

Back to the waiting, back to the weight

Of bills and bedtime and hospital fate

I bury the hunger, but it claws through my chest

You say, "Come closer," I forget all the rest

I lift you gently, scared you might break

But your nails on my back scream, I'm still awake

The world disappears in the space of your breath

We steal what we can from the hands of death

Hold me like before, against the bathroom wall

Fingertips trembling, bodies gonna fall

Desperate, pathetic, but baby, it's real

I need you to need me, to touch and to feel

Steam on the mirror, tears on your skin

For a moment, we're fire then it's gone again

Tomorrow brings needles and doctors and pain

But tonight, we're just lovers, lost in the rain

If this is borrowed, if this is brief

I'll take every second, I'll cling to the heat

Hold me like before, don't let go too soon

Let's carve out a moment where we're only me and you

Desperate, pathetic but baby, it's right

If this is all we have, I'll take one more night