From the view out our window
Even the street lights seem like the sun
In this cage of an apartment
I'm a clipped-winged bird on the run
But my feet won't move
Guess you clipped them too
So I'll just sit and watch the streetlight sun go down

There's a cigarette between your fingers
And lies between your teeth
You're killing me with smoke and secrets
But I won't ever leave

I won't ever leave

Cuz there's a flicker in the shadows of what used to be
Still the flicker of a smile when you look at me
Burns brighter than the secrets and the lies
That fading little flicker in your eyes
I won't let it die

The days are all nights
Our time is all fights
I'm drowning in the words you speak
I'm underwater 
I can't breathe
No, I can't breathe

There's a cigarette between your fingers
And lies between your teeth
You're killing me with smoke and secrets
But I won't ever leave

I won't ever leave

Cuz there's a flicker in the shadows of what used to be
Still the flicker of a smile when you look at me
Burns brighter than the secrets and the lies
That fading little flicker in your eyes

Cuz there's a flicker in the shadows of what used to be
Still the flicker of a smile when you look at me
Burns brighter than the secrets and the lies
That fading little flicker in your eyes
I won't let it die

Flicker

I see that fed up 
Look in your eye
I see that fed up look on your face when I cry
And I know 
It's time to let us go
Oh 

Your heart's an elastic
That's too old to hold my hair anymore
Your heart's an elastic
That's too old to hold our love anymore
And I want you to know
That it's okay to let me go

I wore your heart around my wrist for years
There's no way I can stop these tears
Falling down like rain
I wore my heart upon my sleeve 
And now you wanna leave
Well there's the door
We both can't do this anymore

Your heart's an elastic
That's too old to hold my hair anymore
Your heart's an elastic
That's too old to hold our love anymore
And I want you to know
That it's okay to let me go

I'm not blaming you
I blame myself
We both know I'm the one
Who wore you out

Your heart's an elastic
That's too old to hold my hair anymore
Your heart's an elastic
That's too old to hold our love anymore
And I want you to know
That it's okay to let me go

I want you to know
That it's okay to let me go


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Samantha Ciotti is a twenty year old singer-songwriter, bass player and novelist. She is from Canada but has spent the past fourteen years living on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic. She enjoys kiteboarding, snowboarding, kickboxing and secretly watching Disney Channel. Like a baby deer, she gets tripped up by her long limbs and bumps into things.  She is nice.

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