Salt Destroyer Lyrics

Rubbing your eyes
Fluorescent porch light
Meant your head was back to mine
But I could see you fine

Was it the act
Or just in the telling?
Don't grab my arm
Unless it has to mean something

That's what it was
Salt water churning
That's what it was
The road out closing
When you stopped on by

Tear in your jacket
Trainers loosely untied
Had you gone night swimming?
Was Jack out chasing the tide?

That's when your face collapsed in
And your hands went slack
"Can I show you something different?"
I got the dog in the back

That's what it was
The waves had pulled out
Michael's house now
Bobbing on the bay

You said nothing ever stays
But it never really goes
This is proof, I know
This is proof, I'm sure

And I look the other way
God, I hate it when you try
To talk through landscapes
Can't love me like I want you to
Don't act warm when the feeling's blue

What's left after?
So much wood in the water
You walk out in the morning
With the finer weather

And rubbing my eyes
God damn porch light
I should know better than to tangle with
A salt destroyer