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Love Me Like I'm Dead

from Wilted Eden by Jail Weddings

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lyrics

Impermanence is an unreal thing
So unreal that it’s the realest thing of all
I invite
All spite within me
Killing myself to believe everything is acceptable

You’re even better than the real thing
We share a car, bar receipts, a dog and all the heat
To trick ourselves into thinking
Gravity is not everything

Does Mother Earth spit or swallow every time a good one disappears?
What does it take to be a Saint
Immaculate
The same way I see you, dear?

It just goes on and on and on
The true delusion
That we won’t just get spilled
‘Cross the sky or the lawn
But ain’t that love?
I said ain’t that love?
Our heads in the sand
Waiting for the rest of our body
To catch up

But hey! I was only trying to get gone too!
Surrendering to something bigger than me or you
Some of us, just can’t help, getting seduced

I was looking for truth, now I’m praying for truce
Trapped under the same roof
Screaming for a sign
Alignment
Affection
Its effect
Its holy proof

Well I guess it’s a defect I love as hard as I do
And hey I admit, I’ve chased an ambulance or two
We’re here alive and well, just not the heart or the head
Our history unfolded like an unmade bed
I spend nights on the couch wishing for mouth to mouth
Dreaming the cold wind is your gift of oxygen
But ain’t that love – its own inspiration?
I guess “vanilla love sex” has an expiration

Remember when we were kids and we’d secretly wish we could die for just one day?
With the exception that we could somehow bear witness to everything that they might say?
Well instead, can I be granted just one tantrum, cause baby, I learn from the best
And let’s see how close you listen
Let’s see if you can pass this one last test

There’s a difference in loving somebody gone and somebody that is still here
When you’re here they just pick you apart until you almost disappear
Then when you’re gone they go and fall in love with all our parts they used to dread
And I think it would just be so cool
If you could finally love me
Like I am dead

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from Wilted Eden, released September 20, 2019

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Jail Weddings Los Angeles, California

Wilted Eden, the expansive third album by L.A.'s tarnished romantics Jail Weddings is one of those rare albums recorded in "real time" chronicling the intersection between the whirlwind birth and eventual death of new love, along with the sudden unforeseen deaths of many loved ones. Still standing in their 10th dizzying year, the Wall of Sound provocateurs return anew... ... more

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