“If you like to break a heart, please hang up and try again” - Letters circa 2007
My fist spoke volumes to your chest tonight
Louder than My Chemical Romance in the background
Before MTV popularized broken hearts between girls and boys
I want a hot boy, you want a fly girl
A fly girl that never flies away
Yes she knows where she’s going
No I don’t think I’ll be staying
No more telling people that I’m taken
No more watching water boil in your kitchen
Three minute top ramen left uncooked
No more operators transferring your I love yous
You only live and love in saved voicemails
On demand, over and over again
I no longer look for your key underneath your door mat out of habit
No longer look for your key fitting my heart
or under my skirt
Still fits but no longer same
You enter with a vengeance matching I love you in every thrust
Willing the floodgates to open
Willing me to accept your flaws
Willing me to stay
Take my phone off your charger, shut out the noise
You can lie and live forever in my Nokia
I’m almost to your door
The one that let me in
Now let me leave
I reach for your key to open
But you hide it away
Replay voicemails in my head
Come over, don’t leave, come over, don’t leave
To replay this message, press one
To replay this message, press one
To forget you forever, press three
Fuck it
Give me back your key if you want me to stay
I’m only here because I’m addicted
to the broken hearts of MTV
