Leave Before It Lands

(Don't get close...)

(I already know how this ends...)

I pack my bags before I even unpack yours

I learn your name but I'm already at the door

You think I'm staying 'cause I'm smiling at your face

But I've been leaving since the moment I embraced

I don't do mornings, I don't do "how was your day"

I do the silence right before I slip away

You'll wake up wondering what you did wrong

But baby you were perfect, I was just gone

I'm not the villain, I'm not the ghost

I'm just the one who runs when it gets close

I leave before it lands

Before the feeling hits my hands

Before I say something I mean

Before you turn me into something clean

I leave before it lands

'Cause if I stay I'll break the plan

And the plan is all I've got

When everything inside me rots

You text me "I miss you" and I read it twice

Not 'cause I don't feel it, 'cause I feel it too precise

Every time I let someone get near my chest

I hear the clock inside me counting what is left

I've hurt the good ones, let the bad ones stay

'Cause bad don't expect me to be okay

I self-destruct in rooms that smell like love

Then blame the walls for caving in above

I'm not confused, I see it clear

I just can't be what you need me to be here

I leave before it lands

Before the feeling hits my hands

Before I say something I mean

Before you turn me into something clean

I leave before it lands

'Cause if I stay I'll break the plan

And the plan is all I've got

When everything inside me rots

You deserve the kind of love

That doesn't check the exit first

You deserve the kind of man

That doesn't practice how to hurt

And I know that's not me

I know that's not me

I've known it from the start

But I still let you in

Just to tear it apart

I leave before it lands

I leave before it lands

Before the feeling hits my hands

Before I turn into a man

That stays and means it

Stays and means it

I leave before it lands

'Cause landing means I'd have to feel

And feeling means it has to be real

And real is something I can't deal

I leave before it lands

Before it lands

Before it lands

(Huh... huh... huh...)

Before it lands

I leave

I leave

I leave

(Don't get close...)

(I already know...)

(I already know how this ends...)