Sun Bleached Flies

[Verse 1]

Sun bleached flies sitting in the windowsill

Waiting for the day they escape

They talk all about that money and how their babies are always changing while they're breathing in the poison of the paint

What I wouldn't give to be in Church this Sunday

Listening to the choir, so heartfelt, all singing

God loves you, but not enough to save you

So, baby girl, good luck taking care of yourself

[Chorus]

So I said fine, 'cause that's how my daddy raised me

If they strike once then you just hit 'em twice as hard

But in the end, if I bend under the weight that they gave me

Then this heart would break and fall as twice as far

[Verse 2]

We all know how it goes

The more it hurts, the less it shows

But I still feel like they all know, and that's why I can never go back home

And I spend my life watching it go by from the sidelines

And God, I've tried, but I think it's about time I put up a fight

[Chorus]

But I don't mind 'cause that's how my daddy raised me (How my daddy raised me)

If they strike once then you just hit 'em twice as hard

But I always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me

So I just prayed and I keep praying and praying and praying

[Bridge]

If it's meant to be then it will be

So I met him there and told him I believe

Singing if it's meant to be then it'll be

I forgive it all as it comes back to me (Back to me)

If it's meant to be then it will be

So I met him there and told him I believe (I believe, yeah)

Singing if it's meant to be then it will be (Oh, oh)

I forgive it all as it comes back to me (It comes back to me)

If it's meant to be then it'll be (It'll be, it'll be, it'll be)

So I met him there and told him I believe (Yeah)

Singing if it's meant to be then it will be

I forgive it all as it comes back to me (Oh)

[Outro]

I'm still praying for that house in Nebraska

By the highway, out on the edge of town

Dancing with the windows open

I can't let go when something's broken

It's all I know and it's all I want now

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Lore (In Progress)

In an answer to an ask regarding possible metaphors in Sun Bleached Flies, Hayden says "it’s just her struggling with that need for violence that she’s always relied on her whole life to protect herself and trying to let go of it in the end. the dancing with the windows open line is just actually a straightforward lyric about her in the afterlife dancing in that house she would always meet willoughby in where they would dance in front of the open window. “i can’t let go when something’s broken” is her referring to their relationship, and how even though she’s made her peace in life and moved on, he’ll always be the thing that was never going to work that she still wants."

Sun Bleached Flies is the song where Hayden most connects with Ethel, where they meet in the middle.

Sun Bleached Flies was recorded on the same piano as Televangelism and A House in Nebraska.