[Verse 1]
            
Grocery store 

     
sushi
             
You're choppin

             
g ketamine wit

         
h a motel room

 key
            
Like a razor o

         
n a water slid

e
            
Surgeon seeing

             
 the scalpel s

      
ewn inside

[Pre-Chorus]
            
You get past t

            
he cold spot i

           
n the lake
            
The easy thing

            
s in life keep

         
 getting harde

r every day

[Chorus]
            
Potpourri, dea

             
d smell of a s

        
tagnant creek
             
Cause you ran 

             
your car into 

             
a cherry bloss

   
om tree
            
Rolled the tir

             
es down the mu

    
ddy hill
            
You just keep 

             
on swimming th

      
rough until

[Pre-Chorus]
            
You get past t

            
he cold spot i

           
n the lake
            
Abundant thing

            
s in life keep

         
 getting fewer

 every day

[Solo]
  
  

[Bridge]
            
A street jugga

           
lo sang us a s

weet song on t

he porch
            
When we lived 

             
downtown and w

           
hoever was nea

r would come o

n up
             
Next week, we 

             
saw her on a p

#            
oster stapled 

     
to a pole
             
She'd killed a

            
 guy and left 

            
the body layin

  
g by the road

[Outro]
             
Between broadw

             
ays and the ra

           
mp, to 23, swi

      
mming through
             
Cause to you i

              
t's just like 

            
swimming throu

            
gh a cold spot

        
 in the lake
            
And the sweete

            
st parts of li

              
fe keep gettin

  
g bitter every

 day