Broken yolk in western sky
My stomach turned, my mouth went dry
I knew I'd never known fear before
I pressed my palms into the seat
Took one last look at you next to me
I kicked open the sliding door
And I threw myself out on the road
Torn flesh and broken bones
And on the shoulder's patchy grass
I faded into your past
I know it was a cowardly thing to do
And that an explanation is not an excuse
I just want you to understand
That love is only a type of greed
Of equal portions, want and need
And you cannot divorce the two
And I could not sleep at all
With all the rumble strip close calls
In the gravel and scattered trash
I faded into your past
When you think twice
You arrive at the same conclusion
It's bad advice
Only if you use it
Broken yolk in western sky
My stomach turned, my mouth went dry
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I need you to understand/My love is like some kind of greed/Of equal portions, want and need/And you cannot divorce the two
Maybe not nearly as raw as the acoustic bones of it back in 2007, Gibbard boiled down to his PNW indie-nasal singer-songwriter panache, this debut studio cut finds the song five years later, a little over-fed with lap-steel slides and a galloping backbeat, but still as breakup potent as ever.
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