loveburned from undertones by floricide

after you slept in my bed i pressed my nose into the sheets
cotton strands of you interwoven with me
i felt the imprint of your body traced the wrinkles on the covers
but my hands land too heavy and erase those days of summer

braid me into your hair
and take me with you when you go
nostalgia makes me feel nauseous
but august makes me feel so alone

i long to be a kept girl but there's nothing left to keep
i love my lovers like a locksmith who loses all the keys
you laid me down on vinyl stitches in the backseat of a car
i said "let's drive til they can't find us" but we never got that far

braid me into your hair
and take me with you when you go
nostalgia makes me feel nauseous
but august makes me feel so alone

i bide my days with self destruction
i spent the nighttime wide awake
summer slips between my fingers
a strand of hair falls from a braid
i've always been an open book
where love sets fire to a page
my bed is cold i'm so alone
it isn't august without flames

braid me into your hair
(loveburned)
and take me with you when you go
(loveburned)
nostalgia makes me feel nauseous
(loveburned)
but august makes me feel so alone

• Alternative
• bedroom
• lo-fi
• singer-songwriter
• Wisconsin