Standing On The Edge Of Summer

Album: Full Collapse (2001)
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  • In this room
    I'm sitting by your side
    'Cause it rains for hours and the phone is off its hook
    Standing on the edge
    Casting lots to set me up
    Before you knock me down
    Off the summer's edge and drown me
    We're betting on our own lives
    Making up for all the time we lost

    In this house of cards
    We're all holding hearts and spades
    (One breath, one step could knock it all down)
    But you lead with your eyes and you give it away
    (Decide, design to cut from the clouds)
    When the people you love get lost in the shuffle
    (When you leave, you leave nothing but broken hearts)
    You let it go and then you fold

    So we stay on the open road
    We drive for hours and still no end in sight at all
    Driving in your car
    Miss the stop sign
    Fall in love
    Just to get knocked down
    Off the summer's edge and drown me
    We're betting on our own lives
    Making up for all the time we lost

    In this house of cards
    We're all holding hearts and spades
    (One breath, one step could knock it all down)
    But you lead with your eyes and you give it away
    (Decide, design to cut from the clouds)
    When the people you love get lost in the shuffle
    (When you leave, you leave nothing but broken hearts)

    Pull your punches and burn with your cigarettes

    Pulled like a punch and burnt like a cigarette

    Forever Writer/s: Geoffrey Rickly, Robert III Keeley, Steven Pedulla, Thomas Rule, Timothy Payne
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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