Old Wounds - John Moreland

I wanna fall asleep forever

I wanna learn to disappear

Can you take away the mess, that’s been building in my chest

Drowning out the song I used to hear

Love’s a violent word, don’t you forget it

I ain’t saying that you ever could

I’ve seen my seasons change

I was crying out your name

Remember when we used to feel so good

So don’t forget to love me in damnation

For the living I have earned on love gone wrong

And we’ll open up old wounds in celebration

If we don’t bleed, it don’t feel like a song

You got your honest intuition

You got your cigarette smoke

And I’m all your oldest fears, the black mark on last year

But I got the hope you let me hold

So let them judge and shove us under

And let them do the devil’s work

Let them calculate the crimes in all our broken rhymes

But let us find the heaven following the hurt

So don’t forget to love me in damnation

For the living I have earned on love gone wrong

And we’ll open up old wounds in celebration

If we don’t bleed, it don’t feel like a song