[Verse 1]
Driving up the mountain
Ears popping as we climb
It can be risky after sundown
When the roads turn serpentine
We run out of conversation
Day runs out of light
Silent, watching high beams
Interrupt the night
Oooh
Oooh
[Chorus]
Why can't we talk anymore?
We used to talk for hours
Do I make you nervous or bored?
Or did I drink you to the last drop?
[Verse 2]
Your body looming like a spectre
Hungry as a scythe
If you come reaping, I'll come running
I still know what you like
But just like they say
That you can never go home
I could not love you the same way
Two days in a row
Oooh
Oooh
[Chorus]
Why can't we talk anymore?
We used to talk for hours
Do I make you nervous or bored?
Or did I drink you to the last drop?
[Bridge]
Why was our best sex in hotels
And our worst fights in their stairwells?
I was by your side, eye to eye
When you thought you were living in a private hell
[Outro]
I didn't mean to start
Talking in the past tense
I guess I don't know what I think
'Til I start talking
Talk was written by Lucy Dacus.
Talk was produced by Blake Mills & Lucy Dacus.
Lucy Dacus released Talk on Wed Mar 12 2025.
It’s about being with someone for so long that you lose touch with each other, but the other person still expects you to have sex. And having that fear of, “If I don’t do this, the relationship is over, but maybe it’s already over, because we can’t talk anymore.” That, to me, was a really dark, eter...