Cherry Plum - Jessica Taylor

Where are you going

Where have you been?

Leaving me glowing

Wearing so thin

Complacent running in my lungs

Chase you but it always comes

To a place I wouldn’t know

I wish I knew you better than this

Wish I held you tight in my grip

So you’d never struggle out of it

Sinking in the sound of it

I’m losing it just thinking of you

Skipping like my father’s old records

Slipping through the lines in your letters

And it always was so hard to see you cry

But I miss it anyway and don’t know why

So why’d you have to go and play them your music?

Why’d you have to go and take back your inconsistence?

Everybody’s gotta break off a piece, babe

Don’t you ever get tird of their sweet persistenc?

So hold me til your arms are numb

Sweetly, now, my cherry plum

I‘m so sorry

Life for me’s a loaded gun

I’ll distract and you can run

Vision starry and fades

Facing you I still don’t see

Something is escaping me

And you’re dangling it in front of me

Like meat to a dog

Played rough and robbed

And it always was so hard to see you cry

But I miss it anyway and don’t know why

So why’d you have to go and play them your music?

Why’d you have to go and take back your inconsistence?

Everybody’s gotta break off a piece, babe

Don’t you ever get tired of their sweet persistence?

Everybody feels alone in a big bed, babe

Maybe I just gotta give it some healthy distance

Don’t you ever slow it down for a breath, babe?

Are you really so enveloped in your own insistence?

So hold me til your arms are numb

Sweetly, now, my cherry plum

I‘m so sorry

Life for me’s a loaded gun

I’ll distract and you can run

Vision starry and fades