[Verse 1]
With summer wind against my back
I turn my neck back towards the past
And kink a muscle which hasn't moved in years
If every cigarette you kissed
Were tangerines or licorice
Your mumbles in the mornin' would be clear

[Verse 2]
Oh, who am I to be a heel
I question how she loves me still
Don't overthink the simple thing she brings
I send you off and wish you well
To ride on your sharp carousel
A most familiar song to me she sings

[Verse 3]
Halo, won't you love me
When I'm gone and I'm feeling ugly
When I'm halfway 'round the bend
On a bеnder
Loneliness is prеtty
In a populated city
You promised that you'd stay
Then you left her
[Verse 4]
I've darkened down the brightest rooms
Spent fifty bucks on six tattoos
To tell you every story that I know
I've miserably meandered through
A tune that she was dancin' to
How sad to be so comfortably alone

[Verse 5]
She's better off, I'm better lost
I mumble 'bout the Pentecost
And curse the name of anyone who hears
I hunker down and buckle up
My life is short, your time is up
Tell me where you see yourself in
Five years
Nowhere

[Chorus]
Ah, In bad times
I'm drowning like a punchline
In a room full of neckties
I try
To be half alive
My good moods
I'm sweating in a wool suit
And the words that I sold you
All of you
Are getting harder now to relate
Easier to walk away
[Instrumental break]

[Verse 3]
Halo, won't you love me
When I'm gone and feeling ugly
When I'm halfway 'round the bend
On a bender
Loneliness is pretty
In a populated city
You promised that you'd stay
Then you left her
Then you left her
Mm, then you left her