Returning to a tumultuous home with drug addicts, drunks, and damsels in distress
A familiar form on my bed
Your warmth is that of my space heater
Artificial and unhealthy
But I run my space heater every single one of these cold and lonely winter nights
Please keep me warm
It wasn't supposed to be like this
Please keep me warm
It wasn't supposed to be like this
Please keep me warm
(You might know if you're around here what goes on for half the year)
It only felt like the Pacific Northwest on the last morning when my flight pierced that gray sheet
And I caught my last glimpse of a new future home for me
('Cause when I came home I felt like a lost dog, it wasn't supposed to be like this)
Universities and companionship keep me in College Park beyond my years of study
But the SeaTac calls me
Lights on hills and reflecting pools for every tower, a neighborhood where every other person has
Please keep me warm
It wasn't supposed to be like this
Please keep me warm
It wasn't supposed to be like this
Please keep me warm
Staring at the ceiling soaking in every moment of this, because it's almost over
Squeezing every last drop out of your warmth like a dying fire
My hand moves in stop-motion
And where are all the pets? Oh, we're not in the apocalypse, I forgot
(my height, my height)
It wasn't supposed to be like this
It wasn't supposed to be like this