Leave the lights on in the houses where the monsters all come in.
They’re afraid of the dark too you know, They’re afraid of all their fickle sins
Don’t shoot the messenger, I sent him for my love
Underneath the floor boards where you hid my heart like a hit and run.
Cause in the morning nothing’s simple like it was
Back while the alcohol was thinning out our raging blood
you kissed me like a palindrome of sandpaper and mud.

I heard you bought a submarine to put your ego in
So that it wouldn’t feel the pressure as you drowned yourself in beer and gin.
Don’t ask me for a favor; I’ve been cutting you out from under my skin
Since I heard you hurt someone else like you swore you’d never do again.
I’m tired of trying so damn hard to stay a monster’s friend.

Maybe we are each other's victims. Maybe we wear each other’s chains
I know I’ll hold this heartbreak to the shores of other lover’s names.
I can’t describe it. I’m terrified by it just the same.

I always spot you across a crowded room you watched me freeze you were frozen too.
I had just been thinking of you and how much I hate to think of you.
Deer in the headlights someone grabbed my panicked arm.
Dragged me to some god sent place where my trembling branches rode the storm.
You haunt me even when I leave the lights on

In the houses. Am I no better, or do I know better than you do?
Someone told me that you’ve been a mess that you call me monster too,
But there’s a wall between my malice and my bliss.
If I could I ‘d hate you if I could I’d take back every kiss.
But instead I leave the lights on to pretend you don’t exist.