Space Invader

Album: Laugh Track (2023)
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  • It's a calculation I made a mistake on
    I never should have said it like I said
    It will come to me later like a space invader
    And I won't be able to get it out of my head

    What if I'd never written the letter
    I slipped in the sleeve of the record I gave you?
    What if I'd stayed on the C train until Lafayette?
    What if we never met?
    What if I'd only just done what you told me
    And never looked back?
    What if I'd only ducked away down the hallway
    And faded to black?

    It was too romantic, it was sad and frantic
    A paperback book in a storm drain
    It could go number one, if I copied an earworm
    From a melody that I wish I'd had

    What if I'd never written the letter
    I slipped in the sleeve of the record I gave you?
    What if I'd stayed on the C train until Lafayette?
    What if we'd never met?
    What if I'd only just done what you told me
    And never looked back?
    What if I'd only ducked away down the hallway
    And faded to black?
    What if I'd never written the letter
    I slipped in the sleeve of the record I gave you?
    What if I'd stayed on the C train until Lafayette?
    What if we never met?
    What if I'd only just done what you told me
    And never looked back?
    What if I'd only ducked away down the hallway
    And faded to black?

    It will come to me later like a space invader
    And I won't be able to get it out of my head

    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore

    Why'd I leave like that?
    Why'd I leave like that?

    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore

    Why'd I leave like that?
    Why'd I leave like that?
    Why'd I leave like that?
    Why'd I leave like that?
    Why'd I leave like that?
    Why'd I leave like that?

    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore
    Quarter after four in the morning
    My heart's software gore

    Why'd I leave like that? Writer/s: Aaron Brooking Dessner, Bryce David Dessner, Matthew Donald Berninger
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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