[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
           
After the eart

hquake
              
Pictures hangi

    
ng diagonally
              
Drive through 

             
crying in a mi

lkshake
              
It wasn’t buil

      
t to last


[Verse 2]
            
Up in the fron

t seat
              
You were playi

              
ng with the st


ation
              
And I was fidg

            
eting with the

 heat
              
Looking back t

             
o the vibrant 

             
days of racket

        
 in the hall


[Chorus]
             
Caution to the

   
 breeze
              
Say you’ll cli

            
mb your way ou

             
t of your wake

     
 now-ow
              
Velvet curtain

  
 drawn
             
Flowers at you

   
r feet
              
Say you’ll con

             
template how y

             
ou’re weighed 

     
down


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
              
The pulse of t

             
he brakelight 

              
is the colour 

    
of burning emb

ers
              
If you wake up

              
, will you rem


ember
              
The awful thin

       
gs I said at t

he edge of the

 bed?


[Verse 4]
              
Thrashing like

     
 a great white
              
         As th

              
ey rolled you 

           
up on a stretc

her
(I feel the   northern   tide        crashing)
              
And the faint 

              
words of Jessi

     
ca Fletcher
(on   the   pines)
              
         Were 

              
drowned out by

             
 the sound of 

             
racket in the 


hall
(I feel the    northern    tide     crashing on the pines)


[Chorus]
             
Caution to the

 
 breeze
              
Say you’ll cli

            
mb your way ou

             
t of your wake

     
 now-ow


[Bridge 1]
         
Those days, I’

              
d never let yo

       
u fall apart
           
But things fad

            
e  like the sc

              
ent of a brand

     
 new  car
              
Why would I ev

           
er fall in lov


e  again
            
When every det

            
ail is over th

            
e guardrail?
              
Say you’ll cli

            
mb your way ou

             
t of your wake

  
 now


[Chorus]
             
Say you’ll con

             
template how y

            
ou’re weighed 

 
down


[Post-Chorus]
              
Are you awake 

         
now?
              
Are you awake 

         
now?


[Outro]
              
Racket in the 


hall
             
Caution to the

   
 breeze
              
Velvet curtain

  
 drawn
             
Flowers at you

   
r feet


[Outro]
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