One Way Trigger

Album: Comedown Machine (2013)
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  • (One, two, three)

    Get dressed in your bed, while she's asleep
    It isn't right but it isn't hard
    Tell me, tell me, won't you understand?
    Show me, show me, show me a better plan
    It's summer lies, it's someone else's nothing
    Here it comes now

    You asked me to stay
    You asked me to stay
    You asked me to stay
    But there's a million reasons to leave

    Find a job, find a friend
    Find a home, find a dog
    Settle down, out of town
    Find a dream, shut it down

    Please, please don't point it that way
    It's just a trigger that goes once and you'll be unafraid
    I wish that I'd been noticed, but it never goes that way
    The silence that you brought has gone, gone, gone

    Tell me, tell me, won't you understand?
    Show me, show me, show me

    You asked me to stay
    You asked me to stay
    You asked me to stay
    But there's a million reasons to leave

    Show me what to say, show me what to be
    Show me what to see, show me what to be

    Find a job, find a friend
    Find a home, find a dog
    Settle down, out of town
    Find a dream, shut it down

    I don't wanna be in there with you
    I don't wanna be in there without your loving either
    I waited for your thoughts
    Can't wait no longer Writer/s: Albert Jr. Hammond, Fabrizio Moretti, Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Mw from UsaThis song is about an impasse between a man and a woman who are in a relationship. It's the age-old tale- she wants to settle down and he doesn't.
    He has a dream, and she is going to "shut it down" if he gives in and stays with her. The pain in this song is palpable. They both seem to feel conflicted. Someone feels they can't live with the other person or without them. An ultimatum is given by one of the partners in the last line of the song.
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