Fire Engine Red

Tryna get her to stay home

Was worse than pulling a sword from a stone

I'm sweatin' bullets in Palos Verdes

Please don't leave me on my own

I've wanted her to be my wife

I wanted her to want that life

It ended the same way it started

Behind the door, holding that knife

While I'm happy I was wrong

And misled, she took me too

Your lipstick, fire engine red

You are brighter than a neon sea

Of signs that say no vacancy

The few brave men you've let check in

Still brag about the times they've been

Over the limit, drunk on wine

Below the Mason-Dixon line

I promise that I'd start to pray

If the police looked the other way

And I didn't go to jail

Wound up dead

I prayed each night

For your lips' fire engine red

They say

You cannot clear the jump that wide

A stunt like that is suicide

But when I got the courage to

I spent the night alone with you

I think I'm the luckiest guy

I used to be too numb to cry

I don't know how I time this right

It's just the prettiest sight

In the movies

People change

When they bled

Inside my face

Your lipstick's fire engine red

Must admit I'm insecure

That's what all those women were for

I don't wanna be who I am

If nobody else gives a damn

We've been together 'bout a year

I can't say that don't bring me fear

I'm scared to come home every night

I'm scared to keep the checkbook tight

Rented movies

And ???

In your bed

You kissed my cheek

With lipstick fire engine red

You always wear the same perfume

It reminds me of a hotel room

The one in which I swore I knew

I'd spend the rest of my life with you

But I tell you you should take it off

I don't wanna smell like that stuff

Sometimes, my heart, it gets so dark

I sit and watch it fall apart

Run a needle

Through what's left

Tie the tread

Don't let me leave

Your lipstick fire engine red

What's two people supposed to do

When restlessness gets hold of you?

I'm drownin' in my drinking cup

I cannot, will not give you up

But if flowers never stay in bloom

I'd do we in our one bedroom

We're both victims to our fear

I'll be a man and hold you near

If you leave me

You'll survive

In my head

I won't forget

Your lipstick's fire engine red