Lips were painted cherry red And there are fossils in my head You were young and full of dread Bathsheba of the strip mall set We knew vampires in our time Cutting in the bathroom line Looking bored and rolling eyes Ain't pharmaceutically inclined Latchkey love and stolen pills Looking for a cheaper thrill Retrofitted Greek myth swill And in your hair a daffodil We could not have foreseen such light In your hazy, basement eyes Headphones in and thrift store leather Ask me why I care I thought you knew me better than that You will be missed when you go If you ever leave at all Hedonism's restrained thaw Is flooding down and clenching jaws Are you good to drive? You're in a state Hometown script is "I'm okay I'm sticking to the old highway" Suburban cops with empty plates There's a fire that burns today It's raging under K and A I look back at descending wraiths And remnants of the failed state I knew you then and I know you now But at some lost point you became un-tethered Pent up lusts and housing busts You ask me why I care I thought you knew me better than that All I know You said you'd lay low Cold halos You chose your way down Always so safe Always, always I thought you knew me better than that