A Tattered Line of String

Album: Give Up (2013)
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  • We drained every dive
    In the lower east side
    And you failed to catch the train back to Queens
    So you came to my room
    We did some things that we knew not to do
    In the glow of the night's golden hue

    You've got a tattered line of string
    And you tied around everything
    That you want to call your own
    But it never seems to hold

    When we woke, we agreed
    That we would not ever speak
    Of this night to anyone that we both knew
    And you said, "Every time we kissed
    I felt something that couldn't exist"
    And I confessed that I thought I felt it too

    I've got a tattered line of string
    And I tied around everything
    That I want to call my own
    But it never seems to hold

    I've got a tattered line of string
    And I tied around everything
    That I want to call my own
    But it never seems to hold

    Everything
    Everything
    Never seems to hold
    Never seems to hold

    You've got a tattered line of string
    And you tied around everything
    That you want to call your own
    But it never seems to hold

    I've got a tattered line of string
    And I tied around everything
    That I want to call my own
    But it never seems to hold Writer/s: Benjamin D Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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