[Verse 1] I paint you in portraits And I pin you in time On black and white footage when you were so shy You were so shy And the camera was shaking The photo was blurred The memory altered Oh, was it really her? Was it really her? And I moved from the city Yeah, I darkened my door I ripped out a carpet I slept on the floor I slept on the floor And I fenced in the back yard Where my dog had his fun I pulled off the hinges And I made a new one Yah, I made a new one [Chorus] I sold th dress you wore Back to the consignment store I forgot what you bought it for But you never loved nothing more, no [Verse 2] You dads steady preaching And he fights his good fight But hes selling a Jesus that no one will buy That no one will buy And he tells me Im making A fool out of me With all of my singing Well, darlin, well see That just might be Oh, but people are shuffling In and out of our lives Yes, our lifes like party Some people bring booze Some people bring knives And I found all your pictures With dates on the back They had your inscription with holes from the tacks They were all tattered and torn [Chorus] So I sold the dress you wore Back to the consignment store I forgot what you bought it for But you never loved nothing more, no [Bridge] And the fabric grew paper thin At the knees and the elbows when You just would not take it off til the chimes from my cuckoo clock Some wounds just wont heal Oh, no, no, no And some folks just cant feel x2 [Chorus] I sold the dress you wore Back to the consignment store I forgot what you bought it for But you never loved nothing more, no [Bridge] And the fabric grew paper thin At the knees and the elbows when You just would not take it off til the chimes from my cuckoo clock Vocalization, layered speech Aint our life like a party? Aint our life just like a party? Aint our life like a party? x2 Aint our life just like a party? x3 Aint our life like a party? x2
consignment, party, cuckoo, life, fabric