For Mayor in Splitsville (Live from seated performance, Kingston, UK) La Dispute

Funny what you think of after a collapse
While lying in the dirt the first thing
That comes back is never quite what you'd have guessed

And if you could have, you probably would've said
You'd check if all your limbs were intact still and then try to get out

We played house with the neighbors in their basement
Sister made me husband she was older so I did her bidding
I remember once their dad came in said, "You think this is bad?
You don't know the half." And he laughed

It's funny what things come back
The first things you see

How he sort of smiled like it's only a joke but he was lying
There was something else inside of his eyes
All those secrets people tell to little children
Are warnings that they give them
Like, "Look, I'm unhappy
Please don't make the same mistake as me."

How are those old worn out jokes on married life
Told at toasts at receptions still?
How does it never occur how often couples get burned
And end uncertain in Splitsville?