Hampden

10.9.19

Verse

I have never fallen, I’ve only ever landed in love

Steps even, I breathed in while I poured out my blood

Three times I denied you, in return you betrayed

Kiss could’ve been like honey, but it didn’t make you stay

Adored you just like Van Gogh, I fight to cut my eyes and my ear

This place was once ours, now it’s the worst of my fears

The bricks keep whispering, and they seem to echo

This neighborhood’s haunted, but I’m a sucker for a ghost

Chorus

Oh Hampden where you broke me

Where I wept from my bones

Oh sweet Hampden, yes, I looked back

A pillar of salt turned to stone

And the now the taste of your lips is all that you’ve left me

Under these streetlight, I’m blazing with these memories

Go on unhindered, unremember we both made a vow

I’m sorry, I love you, but you’re free from me now

Verse

I think I’d’ve died for it, given you everything that I had

You tricked me with those seven seeds and drove me mad

Perhaps I was second best, maybe you were the one

My Pisces moon made ash under your scorching Cancer sun

The season’s started fading, the greenery has begun to rot

The petals bleed, “I-love-yous” and “you-love-me-nots”

I craved you from my knees, but the concrete, it hurts

There’s no savior to find here, but like him, do I too thirst

Chorus

Oh Hampden where you broke me

Where I wept from my bones

Oh sweet Hampden, yes, I looked back

A pillar of salt turned to stone

And the now the taste of your lips is all that you’ve left me

Under these streetlight, I’m blazing with these memories

Go on unhindered, unremember we both made a vow

I’m sorry, I love you, but you’re free from me now