FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND La Dispute

[Verse 1]
You were breaking like the ground beneath me
Burn up like a dream
I keep off lightning strikes
On summer nights
On television
Now
I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep
That night I tripped and broke my ribcage
On a bar seat
Drunk for weeks
Chasing ambulances
Stumble to my bedsheets
Softly drift off after peaceful things
I had once and released down in the streets
Now here and beyond
All footsteps ended at the pond

[Verse 2]
Don't get why you believed in me so much
To follow and retrieve it all
That sanctity I scattered so indifferently
Still you called on me to breathe you out
You begged the breeze relieve
Me from what settles deep and
Burns down underneath
If you believe
My love like a battered dog
Wanders under street signs
Limps out into nothingness
Burns up like a bad dream gone