aftershocks Lyrics

The other night there was an earthquake

I ran outside in my boxers

With my laptop and my passport in my hand

In my head it was the big one

I imagined my apartment

Turned from concrete into rubble into sand

And every night since then

Around twelve-fifteen AM

As I'm cooling down and getting into bed

I feel my mattress start to shake

And I'm jolted back awake

But it always turns out it's in my head

Nobody tells you about the magnitudes of heartache

When you think it's done there's more

And I'm swaying like a waltz

Under lines for all my faults

Somebody ought to nail me to the floor

Aftershocks

I forget sometimes that I'm just living on a rock

I take walks

But we're never really over

There's a chasm in the clock

And you don't pass with the dawn

You go on and on and on

With new people I'm afraid

I might have to run away

Near my bed I keep an extra pair of shoes

And to ease my troubled mind

I check seismographs online

But nobody else is picking up on you

And it only takes one person

To convince you for forever

That you don't live on solid ground

I'm not stable, and I ache

And my furniture all shakes

Even though you're not around

Nobody tells you about the magnitudes of heartache

When you think it's done, there's more

And I'm swaying like a waltz

Under lines for all my faults

Somebody outta nail me to the floor

Aftershocks

I forget sometimes that I'm just living on a rock

I take walks

But we're never really over

There's a chasm in the clock

And you don't pass with the dawn

You go on and on

And on my back in my bed

I get the shakes

I'm still awake

All alone in my head

Everything breathes

Everything breaks

Nobody tells you about the magnitudes of heartache

When you think it's done, there's more

And I'm swaying like a waltz

Under lines for all my faults

Somebody outta nail me to the floor

Aftershocks

I forget sometimes that I'm just living on a rock

I take walks

But we're never really over

There's a chasm in the clock

And you don't pass with the dawn

You go on and on

And on and on

And on