Human Performance
Parquet Courts
[Verse 1]
I know exactly where I was when I
First saw you the way I see you now, through these eyes
Waiting to retry
Those pristine days I recall so fondly
So few are trials when a life isn't lonely
And now if only
I'd never felt it, I'd never heard it
I know I loved you, did I even deserve it
When you returned it?
There's no suspicion, no hesitation
Believing through the eyes of sure adoration

[Chorus]
Witness and know, fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire, blink unrehearsed
Shield like a house closing its doors
Curved in the dark, rinses of yours

[Verse 2]
Ashtray is crowded, bottle is empty
No music plays and nothing moves without drifting
Into a memory
Busy apartment, no room for grieving
Sink full of dishes and no trouble believing
That you are leaving
Mid-sentence tremors, mind at its weakest
One way of shaking off the thoughts that it sleeps with
[Chorus]
Witness and know, fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire, blink unrehearsed
Shield like a house closing its doors
Curved in the dark, rinses of yours

[Mellotron Solo]

[Verse 3]
In walks the darkness, I pitch without you
Asks me do I realize what I'd done and who I'd done to
Indeed I do know
It never leaves me, just visits less often
It isn't gone and I won't feel its grip soften
Without a coffin
Breathing beside me, feeling its warmness
Phantom affection gives a human performance

[Chorus]
Witness and know, fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire, blink unrehearsed
Shield like a house closing its doors
Curved in the dark, rinses of yours
Write the lyrics for a rock song made in 2016, titled "Human Performance", by artist "Parquet Courts".