Downfall

Album: The Great Divide (2026)
Charted: 23
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  • There's somethin' 'bout the window seats got you feeling like a poet
    You said, "I think that we had everything until now, just didn't know it"
    I'm leaning towards a subject change in a sentimental moment
    We're driving through the Garden State, we'll be strangers in the mornin'
    The way you got your hair up straight makes you look real Californian
    You know you never really could quite place when I'm angry and I'm jokin'
    I'm cursin' every exit sign and my damn Christ-like devotion
    To hoping you might change your mind, and to hatin' you for going

    Roadkill fawn, you said, "How sad"
    Left to rot alone like that
    You state a feelin' like a fact
    I'm glad you left, but you'll be back

    So call me when it goes to shit
    I'll be keeping the house the way it was
    I won't rub your face in it
    I swear I won't tell anyone
    I don't mind being your dead end
    I think it's fine to never move on
    Keep my ear up to the door frame
    And I'll keep rootin' for your downfall
    And I'll keep rootin' for your downfall

    Call me when the bugs don't die and the spring looks just like autumn
    Oh, tell me when you miss the climb from a hole that has no bottom
    I'm hoping that the view ain't nice, that the streetlights bleed into your bedroom
    That you open up to someone kind, and they hold it all against you

    Roadkill fawn, you said, "How sad"
    Left to rot alone like that
    You state a feeling like a fact
    I'm glad you left, but you'll be back

    So call me when it goes to shit
    I'll be keeping the house the way it was
    I won't rub your face in it
    I swear I won't tell anyone
    I don't mind being your dead end
    I think it's fine to never move on
    I'll keep my ear up to the door frame
    And I'll keep rootin' for your downfall
    And I'll keep rootin' for your downfall

    So call me when it goes to shit
    I'll be keeping the house the way it was
    I won't rub your face in it
    I swear I won't tell anyone
    I don't mind being your dead end
    I think it's fine to never move on
    I'll keep my ear up to the door frame
    And I'll keep rootin' for your downfall
    And I'll keep rootin' for your downfall

    I keep rootin' for your downfall
    Oh, I keep rootin' for your downfall Writer/s: Aaron Dessner, Gabe Simon, Noah Kahan
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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