[Verse 1]

Soft eyes, pursed lips

Who taught you how to hurt like this?

Small thing, sweetness

Who will teach you how to heal from this?

[Chorus]

I carry your pain around in a backpack

Spear through your heart, I'm not too far

One sugar for you, one for me too

[Verse 2]

Sparse breaths, warm hugs

That I can still feel after you moved on

[Chorus]

I carry your pain around in a backpack

Spear through your heart, I'm not too far

One sugar for you, one for me too

[Verse 3]

Do you want to crush your bones

In a pestle and mortar with me?

Grind them up, make a paste

And rub the dust all over our veins

[Bridge]

But I skate the surface and read you wrong

You're the smell of dirt after a storm

You're the first breath of spring

You're a home waiting to be lived in

[Verse 4]

Excavate your mind

You have so much time

We can sit on the floor in silence

Or dance to "Potatoes and Molasses"

I hold you

How I want to be held

Maybe I'm naive

But I think you're pretty neat

[Chorus]

I carry your pain around in a backpack

Spear through your heart, I'm not too far

One sugar for you, one for me too

[Outro]

But I skate the surface and read you wrong

You're the smell of dirt after a storm

You're the first breath of spring

You're a home waiting to be lived in