"Return To Sender" Lyrics

Coffee

She keeps her secrets to herself, 'cuz she knows they would kill him / She doesn't talk much of her home, or the feeling in her heart, or the feelings in her bones, or the reasons that she's cold, so cold / She keeps a photo in a frame next to her pillow / Don't know the faces anymore, but they remind her of her home, and the feeling in her bones, and the reasons that she's cold, so cold // She wakes up extra early, she pours a cup of coffee, just to feel a buzz; at least it's something // He's got the fire in his heart and it's been there forever / His mother always said, "my son, you're the brightest of the stars, and you will go very far, just as long as you don't give your heart to just anyone" / He's always moving never stops or slows for a minute / one of those fixer-upper types who's got mending on the brain, and mending on the heart, who takes other peoples' scraps and makes them beautiful // So he wakes up extra early, and he pours a cup of coffee, though he doesn't need the buzz it's just something // And she doesn't want to be his project, no she doesn't want to be his burden, but she must admit it feels awfully good to be wanted / And he doesn't want to be her saviour, no he knows it's not his job to try and fix her, but he must admit it feels awfully good to see her smile // So they wake up extra early, and they go and meet for coffee, and she feels that special buzz without drinking anything //

Let's Love

Let's lay in bed all day and dream the day away, let's talk about all the things we'd do if we had a lot of money / Let's go down to the park and look at all the birds, you can tell me all about their songs and I'll pretend to know nothing / I'd do anything with you // Let's love like our grandparents, let's fight like the dogs, let's sing like a touring band, and beat on our guitars / Let's dance in the kitchen, and laugh till we cry / You can cry on my shoulders when the weight of the world gets too much; I'll be your friend / Let's have a love that stands the test of time // Let's try on all our clothes pretend we drink and smoke, see who we could be if we talk in funny accents / Let's go down to the store and buy expensive foods, find a recipe and ignore all of the instructions / I'd do anything with you // Let's love like our grandparents, let's fight like the dogs, let's sing like a touring band, and beat on our guitars / Let's dance in the kitchen, and laugh till we cry / You can cry on my shoulders when the weight of the world gets too much; I'll be your friend / Let's have a love that stands the test of time // I look into your eyes, you look into my eyes, but you don't see my eyes you see into my very being / Here, put your hand in mine, I know we'll be just fine, 'cuz I'm your "yours" and you're my "mine" and that's all we'll ever need / I'd do anything, and everything with you //Let's love like our grandparents, let's fight like the dogs, let's sing like a touring band, and beat on our guitars / Let's dance in the kitchen, and laugh till we cry / You can cry on my shoulders when the weight of the world gets too much; I'll be your friend / Let's have a love that stands the test of time //

Return to sender

"He was something special," you said to me before you cried / he called you "beautiful," that word you longed for all your life (all your life) // And he said, "gimme your heart" // Charming and mysterious: the kind you're always falling for / Young, dumb, and faithful: the kind a guy like him devours (he devours) // And he said, "gimme your heart" // Breathed in your innocence, but every exhale was a lie / He called you "beautiful," that word now cuts you like a knife (like a knife, like a knife) // And he said, "gimme your heart" // So you said, "gimme my heart, though it's broken, and it's dirty, and it's half the size of what it used to be, though it's fragile, and it's been misused, it's been pushed aside--it's mine--to have, to hold, to heal, to give //