Roxie Dobrer - Metaphors Lyrics

You're asleep
I sneak out the window
I need some air
Thinking, planning how to not let go
I find you later
Sleeping under a tree
I wanna scream
Why won't you ask me to stay?
I'd never get on the plane

Packing my things upstairs
You read an old book for the seventh time
Out loud I love when you read to me
Can't think too hard of the history
Back porch and the music plays
I ask you to hold me
You tell me it's time
I tell you we're fine
We breathe through the panic together
I tell myself this isn't forever

I love telling stories
I love when you show me your ghosts
This will be kept safe in a special secret place
Right now all that I know

Is I'm drowning in you
It's fireworks and butterflies
Can't catch my breath at the finish line
And I'm over the moon
It's a snowglobe on a bookshelf
Perfectly preserved forever mine
And I usually love a metaphor
But it's too late, we knew before
And I don't like this final sunset with you

Drive away
Staring contest
I know you better
Than I'll ever know me
I'll find you later
Sleeping under a tree
Maybe I won't leave
Maybe I'll break into two
I finally see your point of view
Wasn't prepared to feel this scared
My heart and mind want to be honest
I tell myself to let me be honest
You wave goodbye
I think I hate August

And I'm drowning in you
It's fireworks and butterflies
Can't catch my breath at the finish line
And I'm over the moon
It's a snowglobe on a bookshelf
Perfectly preserved forever mine
And I usually love a metaphor
But it's too late, we knew before
And I don't like this final sunset
And I don't like this final sunset with you