Make a mess

Make a mess Make a

mess

Everybody wants the clean version Straight lines,

good light, perfect timing Say the right thing for the right reason

Smile like nothing ever gets confusing I tried keeping every edge in

place Tried making sense of every mistake Now there's coffee running off

the table And for once

I'm gonna let it stay

Don't fix it Don't frame it Don't turn it into something safe

I wanna make a mess

I wanna get it wrong

Turn the whole thing up Till the picture comes undone I wanna

make a mess Leave the edges showing

If I'm gonna lose control I wanna know I'm going Make a

mess

Make a mess

Everybody's editing the evidence Cutting out the pauses and the bad takes

Everybody's building little monuments

To a life they barely recognize these days

So leave the wire hanging from the wall Leave the scratch running

through the song Maybe everything that's out of place Is the only

part

That still belongs Don't polish

Don't package Don't tell me what it should become

Wrong note

Keep it

Voice cracks

Keep it

Amp hum

Keep it

Count us back in

One

Two

Three—

MAKE A MESS

Let the guitars bleed Let the drums run late Let somebody miss

the beat

And don't correct the take MAKE A MESS

I don't want it clean I want something I can touch

Something ugly enough To mean something to me

I wanna make a mess

I wanna get it wrong Turn the whole thing up Till the

picture comes undone

I wanna make a mess Leave the edges showing

Maybe losing control Is how I know I'm going

Wrong note.

Keep it.