[Verse 1]
Nose to nose I hold you so close in the moment
Though I know I feel it slipping away
I told you to shut your mouth when you started talking
About passing years, passing days

I've been having visions of you as a baby
Maybe part of it is all in my head
I don't think I understand time as a line
I wasn't meant to live it like this I guess

And I don't know how you people do it
See it all without the urge to fall right through it

[Verse 2]
Crack open a photo book
Sit alone at 20 and look for a sign that I was there
Staring to the ceiling and contemplate the feeling
Of total obsoletion, dust, and despair

[Chorus]
And yet I can't stop trying
To hold every beautiful thing in my hands
I suck the pulp until I choke on what was never meant to last
And still I hope, although I know I’m never gonna get it all back
[Verse 3]
I feel limited in my constant sensitivity
To what I know will hurt me soon
Every day I spend in the sun I waste thinking of
What will come when it’s time for the moon

If I have to love you, I don't know how to do it
Without holding on too tight
And I don't want to leave you but I might
Only 'cause I don't know how to do this right

[Chorus]
Yet I can't stop trying
To hold every beautiful thing in my hands
I suck the pulp until I choke on what was never meant to last
And still I hope, although I know I’m never gonna get it all back

[Outro]
Oh, just hold me
Tell me I can hold it all too
Tell me something small
Lie so I can make it through
Tell me there’s another side
And I’ll be with it again
Fake omnipotence so I can crawl back into bed