Neko Case Rusty Mountain Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Love songs mostly sound the same
Exercise in futility for me
There's a few who get away with it, they've sung diverging insight I can find
They drag me
No one forced you to fall in love like you did, no one tricked you
You weren't faking it
But they got cold feet or changed their mind
'Cause they got scared or they got bored
Now we're in this boring story that feels unjustly spoiled
Its shelf life, insult to injury
[Chorus]
Did you tell him you're not gonna build his house?
Left the nails in a pile to form a rusty mountain
Some people need to hurt somebody, anyone
You may as well have been a stranger, you may as well have been one

[Verse 2]
So around on this chorus with my most unholy ghost
Take your radio and shove it on your heels and she's in running love
Now I'm not special and I never was No cruelty made a muse of me, seen
Just a two-fisted son of a bitch with no sickening nostalgia for this
Same old cloying story, the same flypaper tongues
We all deserve better than some love song

[Chorus]
So tell him you're not gonna build his house
Left the nails in a pile to form a rusty mountain
Some people need to hurt somebody, anyone
You may as well have been a stranger, you may as well have been one

[Verse 3]
Now that someone really loves me, hey hey
I can see that I'm not easy to love
Took some diverging insight long-in-finding
And now you're here and you kindly remind me
That I'm not a stranger if I ever was
Gonna build this rusty mountain till we smoke cigarettes on the sun
We all deserve better than a love song