While The Gaslight Anthem’s fifth and final album, Get Hurt bears the bigger brunt of the fallout from Fallon’s divorce after 10 years of marriage, songs from his first solo effort do so as well, only in a more subtle way. This certainly seems to be one of them: a song in which he admits that he is...
[Verse 1]
I feel you move through this crowded room
And I catch myself like a spell fallen under you
I've been here before
Watching the wheels go round
[Verse 2]
But everybody that I've ever known
They just ache all night and they wake up alone
Yeah, we wait in the dark
For something to put us to sleep
[Pre-Chorus]
And, oh, my dear, you never know how
Until the things you've done come and run you down
[Chorus]
And we want love like it was a drug
All we wanted was a little relief
And every heart I held in between
They were painkillers to me
They were painkillers to me
[Verse 3]
And could you be to me a love supreme?
'Cause we wait out this life just to hold on to anything
'Cause most of the sparks
Are just sweet little cherry bombs
[Pre-Chorus]
And oh, my dear, don't make a sound
'Til somebody burns you and spits you out
[Chorus]
And we want love like it was a drug
All we wanted was a little relief
And every heart I held in between
Yeah, they were painkillers to me
They were painkillers to me
[Bridge]
Use me up, use me up
Yeah and I'll be enough
Come and use me up, use me up
Oh, don't you love the way I drag you down?
Ain't that enough for you now?
[Chorus]
Don't you want love like it was a drug?
Yeah, don't you want a little relief?
From every heart I held in between
They were painkillers to me
They were painkillers to me
[Chorus]
And we want love like it was a drug
Yeah, all we wanted was a little relief
And every heart I held in between
Well, they were painkillers to me
Yeah, they were painkillers to me
[Outro]
Come get your painkillers from me
Painkillers was written by Butch Walker & Brian Fallon.
Painkillers was produced by Butch Walker.
Brian Fallon released Painkillers on Fri Mar 11 2016.