[Verse One]

Why we cant get it right at home,
Girl.
I can’t handle you. You can’t handle me
We can’t handle our world.

See me on Tuesday, next day I’m out of state.
Scene in my city be like every other place—pretty fake.
Where else could we go?
Too many roads.
Too many wounds.
I don’t wanna be wound to you, you know
not to long ago

we was in the pool,
I was into you.
We skinny dipped, could of got arrested
but we was invested in some higher— truth.

You? Look at you-you.
Forget the way we swayed the water oh-oh.
Sound penetrate the water like a flame turn blue.
You finger-trace my shoulder blades
with hands that memorize my face Smooth.

I must admit, I can’t forget the way an orgasm bloom
like the orbit of a moon that eclipses in a private room.
Memory.
This love ain’t bullet proof.
revelry.
You and me we ain’t bullet proof.
Remember theeee
ammunition we keep
in our mouth like a loose tooth
Talk is what we do: shoot-shoot.

[Chorus]

I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
Don’t you know about?
Don’t you know about Donnie Darko?


[Verse Two]

Emotional weight
makes the surface of this relationship easy to break.
Holy earthquake. Ain’t no middle ground.
Just a bunch of romance predicated on the concept of fate.
I don’t want to use a song like a choke chain.
I just write what comin’ out from my veins.

Ain’t no easy way to say, the picture we painted
has started to fade.
My bad, dam, left the cap off the toothpaste.
Your disapproving glance makes my body conflate.
Weight.

“Hold up, hey,
why we out of touch?
How this fight erupt?”
I said what? Now your stung and your bringin up old shit.
All your feelings shows up like “oh shit.”
Could you be more drastic?
like you wish you never knew me what is that shit?”
Like you can’t see most of what we have is fantastic:
love friendship intimacy how you gonna look past this?”

Right?
But look at all this baggage
we can’t even mask it.
So dam tragic.
Sigh.
Death-death dancing ,
bunch of hammers in our hands
actin like we ain’t already built these caskets.

Why?


[Chorus]

I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
Don’t you know about?
Don’t you know about Donnie Darko?

[Verse Three]

What a twinkle in my eye on a Saturday night.
My boy said he bout to have a baby
And I told him its goin be alright.
What a miracle is life.
But some days I’m not afraid to toss it a side.
When you get this age and you witness suicides,
When you get to this age you feel young and old at the same time.
In the living room with a change maker and his incredible wife.
Trying to figure out the secret to their success
but I see the struggle in their eyes.
We all holdin’ on ‘til we die.
We all holdin’ on ‘til we die.

People grow alone.
People grow. People don’t.
People grow apart.
People fade away.
People get afraid.
People braid their hopes.
People gotta cope.
Relationships need soil and water and sun you know?

We got the water and it flow,
but we both fightin’ for the sun, branchin’ out. Oh, no.

Branch this message in your memory
cuz I feel this heavily.
I’m lonely in my mental. See
I prefer to be alone when it just me
As opposed to feeling all alone next to someone struggling to love me.

Cuz I struggle to love me.
We do the same thing!

[Chorus]

I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
I live alone, I live alone (ha, ha, ha).
Don’t you know about?
Don’t you know about Donnie Darko?

[Outro]

Don't you know about Donnie, Donnie, Donnie, Donnie, Donnie, Donnie, Darko?

I think we killed us and we died-died.
Woke up in my bed like where is my pride-pride?

I think we killed us and we died-died.
Can’t even cry cuz we done this too many time-times.

I think I killed us and we died-died
Woke up in my bed like who by my side-side?

I think we killed us and we died-died.
Woke up in our bed like new water, new soil, new life.

New...life.