Hold Me Down

By Cory Branan

On Mutt

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I trace a never-ending picture with a disappearing pen

She said "I see the angel with the synthesizer in her hand

What's that supposed to be beside her?

Is that supposed to be a man?"

Look, I did the best I can

Hold me down

Hold me still

Love me like

You always will

Kiss me like you've solved it

Kiss me like you solved it

You left me bluer than your bracelets in the motel bath

And when you said "I loved you," well I had to laugh

Because what was that?

Now it's raining on the ocean every time you send your best

It feels like someone forcing open an umbrella in my chest

Now there really ain't no use

To talk anymore

It's raining on the ocean

It's raining on the shore

Hold me down

Hold me still

Love me like

You always will

Kiss me like you solved it

Kiss me like you solved it

The lovely explosion

Unfolds its tiny wings

And a tiny box

In a giant screen TV

Above the busy bar

I clutched my coat

And clenched my heart

And hard to know

That I was younger yesterday

Than I ever guessed before

Climbing out of hell

On a ponytail

To kick in your back door

And then I slept under our statue

The one in Mercy Park

That I said looks just like you

Even more so when it's dark

'Til you refuse to yield

Your useless sword and shield

And I woke up in the garden

I woke up in the sun

I woke up like a

Bullet wakes up from a gun

Too late to turn around

Ah, hammer down and done

I'm done, I'm done goddamn I'm through

Evangeline, I'll never need another dream of you

Just hold me down

Hold me still

Love me like

You always will

Kiss me like you solved it

Kiss me like you solved it

Hold me down

Hold me still

Love me like

You always will

Hold me down (cast will come)

Hold me still (from the sky)

Love me like (rust and rhyme)

You always will (the world will unwind)

Hold me down (rust and rhyme)

Hold me still (the world will unwind)

Hold me down (rust and rhyme)

Rust and rhyme