the longer that i m out here the better you sound you re scrunching up your face in this picture i found and i m chasing after you steadily losing ground i don t wanna forget so i m writing it down have you ever no never never i find that hard to believe so let s burn the furniture to see how angry a fire could make me now you say that there s someone that you need to reconnect with some scarecrow from high school that you loved but never slept with a baby with a pipe dream playing hopscotch on your bandages and i m singing all his songs while i sleep on your couch i m coughing up a lung but i m covering my mouth and i paint you on the wall yellow red green and brown i miss you all the time but i m blocking it out are you better no never never what does that say about me now let s break the smoke alarm to see how scared locked windows ll make me now you say there s a stranger staring sideways in a deep freeze a loner draped in ivy playing slumlord in his city dream some faker with an art form pulling magic tricks on the weak girls up his sleeve and i m choking right along with the words in my throat i m falling back in love with the letter you wrote and i think that i was wrong but i guess i don t know i figure that i ll wait until you tell me so  oh oh yeah yeah yeah oh oh oh oh the longer that i m out here the better you sound you re scrunching up your face in this picture i found and i m chasing after you steadily losing ground see i miss her every night but i m blocking it out and the longer that i m out here the longer that i m out here whoa the longer that i m out here whoa the longer that i m out here the better you sound