Maroon

When the morning came we
Were cleaning incense off your
vinyl shelf ‘cause we lost track of time again
Laughing with my feet in your lap
Like you were my closest friend
“How’d we end up on the floor anyway?”
You say
“Your roommate’s cheap-ass screw top rosé,
That’s how.”
I see you every day now

And I chose you
The one I was dancing with in New York
No shoes
Looked up at the sky and it was
The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into
me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet it
was
The mark they saw on my collarbone the rust that grew
between telephones the lips I used to call home
So scarlet, it was maroon

When the silence came we
Were shaking blind and hazy
How the hell did we lose sight of us again?
Sobbing with your head in your hands
Ain’t that the way shit always ends
You were standing hollow-eyed in the hallway
Carnations you had thought were roses
That’s us
I feel you no matter what
The rubies that I gave up

And I lost you
The one I was dancing with in New York
No shoes
Looked up at the sky and it was (maroon)
The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into
me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet it
was (maroon)
The mark they saw on my collarbone the rust that grew
between telephones the lips I used to call home
So scarlet, it was maroon

And I wake with your memory over me
That’s a real fuckin’ legacy, legacy
And I wake with your memory over me
That’s a real fuckin’ legacy … to leave

The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into
me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet it
was (maroon)
The mark they saw on my collarbone the rust that grew
between telephones the lips I used to call home
So scarlet it was maroon