Shoulda Known - Atmosphere

Naked in the bathtub

Sittin' on the porcelain

Waiting for that little hurricane to pull your torso in

The water don't run, just drips like rain

Still drips like a painkiller drips to the veins

Fill it up

With a bag of that happy stuff

Cuz the way she runs out, you can tell she ain't had enough

Good times goddess

My goodness

Got finger nail polish autopilot foot prints

With a smile that's stitched to the fabric of bedtime tales and

Keep them kids out of the attic

The mouth of madness

Loud and manic

The motive of the bird holding south on the atlas

Picture a hole

Put your hero in

Envision the gold

Now zero in

Been watching your night train track for the last few stops

With no desire to hop it

How did we end up in your apartment

Pocket full of gossip says this ain't smart

When it's all said and done, can't get restart

But I'll be damned if I don't wanna kiss you--

Hard

(chorus)

Shoulda known better not to f**k wit' you

Ain't got nothin' but too much to lose

Lost in the rush don't know what to do

That drug got you like I want you

Shoulda known better not to f**k wit' you

Ain't got nothin' but too much to lose

Lost in the rush don't know what to do

That drug got you like I want you

I've got a restraining order

Against Satan's daughter

And I keep it at the bottom of this Jameson and water

And when we get there

You can sit there and stare

From behind your mascara and your thick hair

I'm aware of that pain you harbor

The same negative game to the names you martyr

Apart from the details and substance and whatnot

That hunger of love pistol and gut rot

Bloodshot

Give me one shot, my shot

Hopped up on enough talk to make time stop

The lines of chalk that benjamin might cop

Killed the illustrations on the neighborhood sidewalks

Then all of a sudden she got silent

Pupils like marbles, hide behind the eyelids

Get away sticks go limping hole place

The smile sucked up most of her face

Truly you beat the scene so surreal

And each criticism becomes redeemed

Swallow my words

No more judgment it's true

Cuz you look like what I feel like when I'm with you

Shoulda known better not to f**k wit' you

Ain't got nothin' but too much to lose

Lost in the rush don't know what to do

That drug got you like I want you

Shoulda known better not to f**k wit' you

Ain't got nothin' but too much to lose

Lost in the rush don't know what to do

That drug got you like I want you