Nettles

Album: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (2025)
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  • We were in a race to grow up
    Yesterday, through today, 'til tomorrow
    But when the plant blew up
    A piece of shrapnel flew and slowed that part of you
    The doctors gave you until the end of the night
    But not 'til daylight (not 'til daylight)
    Not 'til daylight (not 'til daylight)
    Time passes slower in the flicker of the hospital light
    I pray the race is worth the fight
    Made a fool of myself down on Tennessee Street
    It wasn't pretty like the movies
    It was ugly, like what they all did to me
    And they did to me what I wouldn't do to anyone
    You know that's for sure

    Tell me all the time not to worry
    And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you
    When I won't wake up on my own (wake up on my own)
    Wake up on my own
    Held close all the time, knowing I'm half of you

    Lay me down where the trees bend low
    Put me down where the greenery stings
    I can hear them, singin'
    To love me is to suffer me, and I believe it
    When I lay with you in that auld lang room
    Wishin' I was the way you say that you are
    You'll go fight a war, I'll go missing
    I warned you, for me, it's not that hard

    That picture on the wall you're scared of looks just like you
    I wanna bleed, I wanna hurt the way that boys do
    Maybe you're right and we should stop watchin' the news
    'Cause, baby, I've never seen brown eyes look so blue

    Tell me all the time (tell me all the time)
    Not to worry (not to worry)
    And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you
    When I won't wake up on my own (wake up on my own)
    Wake up on my own
    Held close all the time, knowin' I'm half of you
    Think of us inside (think of us inside)
    After the wedding (after the wedding)
    Sufferin' the while to lie a time or two
    When we won't wake up on our own (wake up on our own)
    Wake up on our own (wake up on our own)
    Held close all the time, knowin' (knowin')
    This was all for you

    Think of us inside
    Gardenias on the tile
    Where it makes no difference who held back from who

    To love me is to suffer me Writer/s: Hayden Anhedonia
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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