Dream Teeth

Lyrics

Verse 1
You laugh at my jokes
I study your throat when you swallow
Every glass on the table
Still smells like your skin

You kick off your shoes
Ask if you can crash on my pillow
You say
“You’re my safest place”
I pretend that that’s enough

Chorus
I want your dream teeth on my shoulder
Your whole life pressed through my ribs
I want you inside the silence
Where I keep the parts I hid
But under that hunger
Under that ache
I’m begging the night to send
Someone who wants my name in the daylight
Someone who stays as a friend

Verse 2
You call me at three
When the girls stop answering messages
I map every pause
Like I’m reading some secret code

You say
“You just get me”
Then leave me on read for a week straight
I tell you
“It’s fine
I’m fine”
And catalog each sting

Chorus
I want your dream teeth on my shoulder
Your whole life pressed through my ribs
I want you inside the silence
Where I keep the parts I hid
But under that hunger
Under that ache
I’m begging the night to send
Someone who wants my name in the daylight
Someone who stays as a friend

Bridge
I am a locked room
Lined with faces made from memory
Every touch I never had
Pinned like insects in the dark

If I hand you my body
Will you ever hold my heartbeat?
If I open every door
Will you still walk right past my soul? (yeah)

Chorus
I want your dream teeth on my shoulder
Your whole life pressed through my ribs
I want you inside the silence
Where I keep the parts I hid
But deeper than wanting
Deeper than lust
I’m praying the void will send
Someone who sees the weight that I carry
And never learns how to bend
Someone who stays when everyone leaves me
Someone who calls me
Friend