Charleston

Morning dew

Smoldering coals

And a Black Mountain view

Staring through

Your puffed up eyes

At the tree line for a few

You usually say you love me

Ooh, by now

Could you at least say something?

Ooh, we're burning out

Cause you'll head back to Charleston

We'll drag it out for months

We've grown to call it normalcy

But it'll never be enough

I'll call you in the pauses

Meet in halfway towns

Cheap hotels and tough farewells

And burying the doubts

Looking at you now

The thought that we have hit our end's got me nauseous

We've been wearing down too slow to know what caused it

So I'll hold you in these hills

Til' you head back to Charleston

It's a painful truth

To think apart

We'll gain more than we'll lose

But it won't be soon

Damn, I wanted it to be you

But you'll head back to Charleston

We'll drag it out for months

We've grown to call it normalcy

But it'll never be enough

I'll call you in the pauses

Meet in halfway towns

Cheap hotels and tough farewells

And burying the doubts

Looking at you now

The thought that we have hit our end's got me nauseous

We've been wearing down too slow to know what caused it

So I'll hold you in these hills

Til' you head back to Charleston

If we're being honest

We've got to call this what it is

A quiet codependence

Too comfortable to quit

There's no root to point to

No one thing to blame

But no reason to leave

Isn't a reason we should stay