Need To Be Still

I, um

I got stuck on a song recently

Since this is, this, I'm recording this for an actual record

And this isn't something that we planned in a week

Except that we did

We've just been talking about it for two years, you know?

I'm not gonna use a pick

It took me forever to write this damn thing

The fact that we feel guilty just for sitting here

Should tell us this is wrong

And beating 'round the bush to burning bridges

Wouldn't take us very long

But there's more to be considered here

Than giving into things we think we feel

I wish that I could chase you 'cause I want you

But I need to be still

There's places we could go

Where no one knows about the lives we threw away

We could just start over

And it might be worth the hell we'd have to pay

There's part of me that's saying we should fly away

And stick them with the bill

'Cause God knows that I would take you there forever

But I need to be still

And we could take a leap of faith

Into the night

Yeah, close the blinds and blur the lines

Between wrong and right

Yeah, but for all we've talked about

They're just things we won't find out

'Cause I'm leaving even if against my will

'Cause staying would mean leaving and I'm staying

So I need to be still

And I wish that there was something I could say

So I could make you understand

Oh, but there's no turning back or going home

Once that ring comes off her hand

Yeah, and who knows how it goes

And I'd be crawling back once we have had our fill

So better safe than sorry, girl, I'm sorry

But I need to be still

Yeah, I need to be still