Muscle Memory

Album: Little Machines (2014)
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  • After having spent a fast year
    Waiting for the next time I can get you close
    I grew used to being back here
    Like a chorus synth line soldier at his post

    You call and I respond
    The sparrow and the song
    I miss you when you're gone

    When I am alone, I
    See you in the dark, I
    Talk into the empty
    Like you were with me
    Started on a cold night
    Felt you in the low light
    Noticing the reflex
    Taking over me

    I see you when I reach
    Muscle memory

    Again, off into the next fall
    I am on the back steps tryin' to let you in
    See you standin' in the front hall
    Maybe this is madness underneath my skin

    Guess the misery spawns
    Or the body it haunts
    And we do what it wants

    When I am alone, I
    See you in the dark, I
    Talk into the empty
    Like you were with me
    Started on a cold night
    Felt you in the low light
    Noticing the reflex
    Taking over me

    I see you when I reach
    Muscle memory
    I feel you when I sleep
    Muscle memory

    When you feel the chains
    Of a thousand words
    And I speak your name
    Like I know you heard

    I can feel you there
    I can hear you move
    And it moves me, too

    When I'm playin' games
    When I'm drinkin' wine
    And I see your glass
    Sittin' next to mine

    I can feel you there
    When you're not at home
    Like I'm not alone

    When I am alone, I
    See you in the dark, I
    Talk into the empty
    Like you were with me
    Started on a cold night
    Felt you in the low light
    Noticing the reflex
    Taking over me

    I see you when I reach
    Muscle memory
    I feel you when I sleep
    Muscle memory Writer/s: Andrew Pearson, Drew Pearson, Lights Valerie Poxleitner
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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