Better When It Breaks

Verse

Popsicle stick on the dashboard glass

Melting gold while the streetlights pass

Your bike thrown down in the wet cut grass

Nineteen minutes till the curfew's past

Salt on our skin from the quarry dive

Radio catching a station alive

We don't know where this year's gonna land

Just your fingers laced through mine like sand

Pre-Chorus

Can we stay in the crack of the sky

Where the day and the dark collide

Something good always starts to fall apart

Chorus

It's better when it breaks

Wide open, all the light escapes

Cracked glass, golden haze

This is how the good stuff stays

Hold your breath, let it shake

Every ending's a hairline break

We're young, we're wide awake

It's better when it breaks

Verse

Fireworks stuttering over the pier

Sparks in your eyelashes, disappear

Gas station slushies, seventeen cents

Counting change on the hurricane fence

Screen door slamming, mosquito hum

Nowhere we're needed, nowhere we're from

Every summer's a bridge we burn

Just to feel it, just to learn

Pre-Chorus

Can we stay in the crack of the sky

Where the day and the dark collide

Something good always starts to fall apart

Chorus

It's better when it breaks

Wide open, all the light escapes

Cracked glass, golden haze

This is how the good stuff stays

Hold your breath, let it shake

Every ending's a hairline break

We're young, we're wide awake

It's better when it breaks

Bridge

Maybe nothing gold was built to last

Maybe that's the reason it goes so fast

Ten years down some dusty road

I'll still hear this, still feel that glow

The tape runs out, the film still burns

Every fracture is how the light returns

Chorus

It's better when it breaks

Wide open, all the light escapes

Cracked glass, golden haze

This is how the good stuff stays

Hold your breath, let it shake

Every ending's a hairline break

We're young, we're wide awake

It's better when it breaks