Rusty Mountain

[Verse 1]
Love songs mostly sound the same
An exercise in futility for me
There's a few who get away with it
They've some divergent insight I can’t find
They deride me

“No one forced you to fall in love like you did
No one tricked you, you weren't faking it
But they got cold feet or changed their mind
'Cause they got scared or they got bored”
Now we're in this boring story that feels unjustly spoiled
Its shelf life, insult to injury

[Chorus]
Did you tell him you're not gonna build his house?
Left the nails in a pile to form a rusty mountain
Some people need to hurt somebody, anyone
You may as well have been a stranger
You may as well have been one

[Verse 2]
So I round on this chorus with my most unholy gorge
Take your radio and shove it
All your “he’s” and “she’s” and rhyming love
No, I'm not special and I never was
No cruelty made a muse of me, see?
Just a two-fisted son of a bitch
With no sickening nostalgia for this
Same old cloying story, the same flypaper tongues
We all deserve better than some love song

[Chorus]
So tell him you're not gonna build his house
Leave the nails in a pile to form a rusty mountain
Some people need to hurt somebody, anyone
You may as well have been a stranger
You may as well have been one

[Verse 3]
Now that someone really loves me, hey hey
I can see that I'm not easy to love
Took some divergent insight long in finding
Now you're here and you kindly remind me
That I am not a stranger, if I ever was
Gonna build this rusty mountain
Till we smoke cigarettes on the sun
We all deserve better than a love song