Green Habit

Intro

I don’t remember when I started watering this vine

Maybe it was autumn, maybe I was just too kind

Now the window’s nearly covered, creeping in through every crack

And I call it devotion but I’m never getting back

Verse 1

You showed up like a seedling on a mild and careless day

I thought that I could handle it, I thought I’d walk away

But the roots they found the floorboards and the walls began to bend

And now I’m talking to the leaves like they’re my only friend

Every morning I pour coffee from a chipped and clumsy mug

And I feed you what I used to keep for love inside my lungs

Pre-Chorus

And I swear I saw you breathing in the dark above my bed

Not a weed and not a flower, just a green habit I can’t shed

Chorus

Oh, green habit, growing wild inside my chest

I said I’d cut you down a thousand times, you know the rest

You don’t need the sun, you just need me to stay

Green habit, I’m the soil and you’re the rain

And I’ll wake up tomorrow and I’ll water you again

Verse 2

My friends say I should tear you out and let some light come through

But they don’t know the way you twist around the things I used to do

I gave up on the guitar, I gave up on the drive

Now I just sit here counting all the tendrils you’ve survived

And you don’t even blossom, you don’t even pretend

You just keep on getting greener while I shrink inside the bend

Pre-Chorus

And I traced you down the staircase, through the kitchen to the hall

You’re not beautiful but God I can’t remember life before the crawl

Chorus

Oh, green habit, growing wild inside my chest

I said I’d cut you down a thousand times, you know the rest

You don’t need the sun, you just need me to stay

Green habit, I’m the soil and you’re the rain

And I’ll wake up tomorrow and I’ll water you again

Bridge

And what if I stopped? What if I let you turn to brown?

What’s on the other side of all this green I’ve let wrap around?

I used to dream in color, now I dream in just one shade

The kind of peace that comes from giving up the war you never made

Outro

So here’s the morning, here’s the mug, here’s the window, here’s the tug

Green habit, green habit, you’re the only green I love

Fade Out

End