Testo Talk - Lucy Dacus

Talk

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

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?

Your body looming like a specter, 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

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?

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

I didn't mean to start talking in the past tense
I guess I don't know what I think till I start talking