Lyrics
[Drop]
One taste to forget it
Two to feel whole again
[Verse 1]
Knuckle white on the dial
The ache won't let me sleep
Every hour I'm running
From a wound too deep to weep
I found a soft temptation
That hummed a quiet song
And swore the heaviest mornings
Wouldn't drag me for too long
[Pre-Chorus]
But the cure started taking
More than I could give
Now I'm paying for the promise
With the days I used to live
[Chorus]
I was running from the sting
Now I'm kneeling to the chain
The needle outshines the splinter
And every dose is a stain
Gimme back the simple hurt
The one I knew by name
Before relief became the wound
And the wound became the game
[Post-Chorus]
Relief relief (takes and takes)
Relief relief (breaks and breaks)
[Verse 2]
Older versions of me
Smiled through the haze
Said the fix was only mercy
On the roughest of my days
But mercy turned a master
With a ledger in my head
And the ledger counts the moments
I can't get them back in bed
[Pre-Chorus]
The bottle and the blossom
Both smell like surrender
But the blossom left my garden
And I miss its honest splendor
[Chorus]
I was running from the sting
Now I'm kneeling to the chain
The needle outshines the splinter
And every dose is a stain
Gimme back the simple hurt
The one I knew by name
Before relief became the wound
And the wound became the game
[Post-Chorus]
Relief relief (takes and takes)
Relief relief (breaks and breaks)
[Bridge]
What I'd trade for the ache
That taught me how to feel
For the shiver of the first
Before the second one was real
Tell me how to set it down
Tell me how to let it cool
When the thing that saved my skin
Is the thing that makes me cruel
[Chorus]
I was running from the sting
Now I'm kneeling to the chain
The needle outshines the splinter
And every dose is a stain
Gimme back the simple hurt
The one I knew by name
Before relief became the wound
And the wound became the game
[Drop]
One taste to forget it
Two to feel whole again