Matilda

Left in the corner collecting dust

Patiently waiting while my fingers rust

I was locked in the coffin case

Not even on display

As you fret, my frets decay

You pick up your other and you strum away

I listen from the other room

Try to pull you out of tune

Thought I was everything you need

I thought at least you'd want to see it through

And I was caught in between

Giving up and calling out to you

Am I coming through?

Now you don't even write the chords down

You don't even play me anyhow, anymore

Now you just keep cranking them out

Like you're trying to numb yourself

With all this work, but it's just not working out

George and his lover, they gently weep

But I don't even get to breathe

I hardly make a sound

And I'm totally unwound, it's like

All my flaws have become the things

That make you want to destroy something

And the reasons you started are lost

Now that the feeling has worn off

Thought I was everything you need

Thought at least you'd want to see it through

Your voice follows me

You sing perfectly out of tune

I thought we had more time

I thought I could make it up somehow

I try read between the lines

I try to turn myself up loud

Can you hear me now?

Now you don't even write the chords down

You don't even play me anyhow, anymore

Now you just keep cranking them out

Like you're trying to numb yourself

Like I'm just

A different drug, something that you took for granted

Another love that you abandoned right when

It starts to count

You don't even write the chords down

You don't even play me anyhow

'Cause it's only work and it's just not working out