Otis Maximus

[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
I've been alive for a hundred years
Livin' in fear of this moment
This is my story I told it
Hopin' for somethin' to hold it
They said "the cold can kill you"
Yeah well I'm gettin' real close to frozen
My body is worn and my mind is corrodin'
But I see no one else to console me
[Prechorus]
So I tell myself
I just tell myself
I just tell myself
I just tell myself
[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are
[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are
[Verse 2]
Thinkin' I might stay inside
Not 'cause I'm tired but maybe I'm tired
I'm tellin' my friends I think it's a good idea
They're callin' me dumb like I'm dumb but I still might
We don't talk anymore
It's not like before when we talked
It was the best of times and the worst of times
Now it's the worst of times but no better times
[Prechorus]
So I tell myself
I just tell myself
I just tell myself
I just tell myself
[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are
[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are
[Bridge]
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
All my dreams are
[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are
[Outro]
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
You could run
Run
Run
Run
All my dreams are nightmares
You could run
Run
Run
Run
All my dreams are nightmares
You could run
Run
Run
Run
All my dreams are nightmares
You could run
Run
Run
Run
All my dreams are nightmares
You could run
Run
Run
Run
[Chorus]
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are nightmares
All my dreams are

[Verse]
I know a lot of things I never learn
Ain't trust nobody I still wait my turn
I'm antisocial but I'm always outside
They don't believe in me I show 'em all right
[Chorus]
Your oxymoron
I got them movin' with the lights off
Yeah
I'm 'bout to hit 'em with the switch-up
This shit so easy I can't mess up
That's how you feel when you're the one
Huh?
Your oxymoron
I got them movin' with the lights off
Yeah
I'm 'bout to hit 'em with the switch-up
This shit so easy I can't mess up
That's how you feel when you're the one
Huh?
[Verse 2]
I said it ain't my fault that I'm the chosen one
And everything they think is funny never seem as fun
I had to leave it for the fam
It's more than me involved
They wanna take away my time but I can't be the one
Yeah
When they can't get it
Then they wanna stop your shine
It's kinda funny how they see you and they know the vibe
But you just take it and embrace it
Yeah
That's all the time
Don't need the motivation when you got it on your mind
You get it?
[Chorus]
Your oxymoron
I got them movin' with the lights off
Yeah
I'm 'bout to hit 'em with the switch-up
This shit so easy I can't mess up
That's how you feel when you're the one
Huh?
Your oxymoron
I got them movin' with the lights off
Yeah
I'm 'bout to hit 'em with the switch-up
This shit so easy I can't mess up
That's how you feel when you're the one
That's how you feel when you're the one
Huh?
[Outro]
Your oxymoron
Your oxymoron
Your oxymoron
Your oxymoron

[Verse 1]
I drove past the lot again
Saw the stone cut clean and white
Two dates, cold as pennies
And my name in smaller type
Mama said don't stare too long
But I did, I couldn't move
Thought a laugh would last forever
Now it's chiseled in that groove
[Pre-Chorus]
If I go before you do
Promise me one thing, babe
Don't carve my whole life into it
Just the part you used to say
[Chorus]
Put my nickname on it
Put my nickname on it
Let it read like you knew me
Let it read like I was yours
Put my nickname on it
Put my nickname on it
If you miss me, say it soft
By the river and the stones
[Verse 2]
Boys were drinking in the shade
By the fence where marigolds sleep
Some old car with a busted door
Kept rattling the empty street
I brushed the dirt off my boots
Like I could brush off time
Then I laughed at my own shadow
Felt it split right down the spine
[Pre-Chorus]
If I go before you do
Promise me one thing, babe
Don't carve my whole life into it
Just the part you used to say
[Chorus]
Put my nickname on it
Put my nickname on it
Let it read like you knew me
Let it read like I was yours
Put my nickname on it
Put my nickname on it
If you miss me, say it soft
By the river and the stones
[Bridge]
Call me what you call me
When the screen door slams at night
When the meal's gone cold on the table
When you're mad but holding tight
Not the date, not the dust
Not the ache in the field
Just the joke in your pocket
Just the name that made you feel
[Final Chorus]
Put my nickname on it
Put my nickname on it
Let it read like you knew me
Let it read like I was yours
Put my nickname on it
Put my nickname on it
If you miss me, say it soft
By the river and the stones

[Verse 1]
June on your skin
Peach on the porch
Your laugh in my cup
Sticky and warm
We counted the days
With sunburned hands
You drew on my arm
Like a map to land
[Pre-Chorus]
July kept calling
August ran slow
I saved every shirt
That smelled like home
[Chorus]
Nine months of summer
Nine months of you
Nine months of summer
I still feel blue
Nine months of summer
Burned right through
Nine months of summer
I lost you too
[Verse 2]
September came in
With rain on the glass
You packed up the beach
But not what we had
I found your hair tie
Beside my bed
Tiny and red
Like words left unsaid
[Pre-Chorus]
October felt colder
The dark came near
I held that bright light
You left me here
[Chorus]
Nine months of summer
Nine months of you
Nine months of summer
I still feel blue
Nine months of summer
Burned right through
Nine months of summer
I lost you too
[Bridge]
Now every long day
Feels like your name
A sky full of heat
And a hole in the frame
If love was a season
Then ours overgrew
Too much sun
Too much truth
[Final Chorus]
Nine months of summer
Nine months of you
Nine months of summer
I still feel blue
Nine months of summer
Burned right through
Nine months of summer
I lost you too

[Verse]
I like to watch you while you sleep
The way your eyes move in a dream
If they were open
I could see
If you were dreaming about me
[Chorus]
Hey
I can't help but notice
Hey
That you look like you're dancing
Hey
Hey
That you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
On my grave
[Verse 2]
So take my hand
It's gettin' late
Just take my hand
It's gettin' late
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
On my grave
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
On my grave
[Chorus]
Hey
I can't help but notice
Hey
That you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
And you look like you're dancing
Hey
On my grave
[Outro]
On my grave
On my grave
On my grave
On my grave
[Outro]
On my grave
On my grave
On my grave
On my grave

[Verse]
Forever is long
Baby
You know that
Don't you?
This thing that you wanted
Baby
It's what I told you
You said that you need me
You can't be without me
It's too late to change it
Baby
You got it
You see
Forever is long
Baby
And I'm gonna haunt you
Forever is long
Baby
I'm gonna haunt you

[Chorus]
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Forever is long
Baby
And I'm gonna haunt you
Forever is long
Baby
I'm gonna haunt you

Forever is long
Baby
You know that
Don't you?
This thing that you wanted
Baby
It's what I told you
You said that you need me
You can't be without me
It's too late to change it
Baby
You got it
You see
Forever is long
Baby
And I'm gonna haunt you
Forever is long
Baby
I'm gonna haunt Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Haunt you
Forever is long
Baby
And I'm gonna haunt you
Forever is long
Baby
I'm gonna haunt you

[Verse]
Been running for a while now
Out of breath
Chased by ghosts
A child now
In a woman's dress
I don't know where I'm going
But I know what's coming
At last
I turn around and ask
[Chorus]
Why don't you haunt me back?
Why don't you haunt me back?
I wish you'd haunt me back
[Verse 2]
And the ghost takes my hand
Pulls me to her breast
And we float above the land
Watching the birds in their nests
And I know where I am now
And I know where I was
And I know where I should be
Because
[Chorus]
She came back to haunt me
And I'm glad she came back
She came back to haunt me
I wish you'd haunt me back
[Bridge]
Oh
Haunt me back
Haunt me back
Haunt me back
[Outro]
Now I'm living with the ghost
And the ghost lives in me
It's a different life now
But it's one that I need
And I know where I'm going
And I know where I've been
And I know who I was
And I know who I am
Haunt me back
Haunt me back
Haunt me back
Haunt me back

[Verse]
Guess I died at twenty-seven
There's a hole inside my stomach
Got a headstone with my nickname on it
Saw my ghost on Channel Seven
In the pictures you uploaded
I'm a specter in a tabloid column
[Chorus]
I don't wanna go to Heaven
Wanna haunt you in your bedroom
Like I promised I would do in my apartment
Guess I died at twenty-seven
There's a hole inside my stomach
Got a headstone with my nickname on it
[Verse 2]
She keeps her head up
Got her ten bucks
For her big blunt
She don't say much
But she knows my name
Wanna kiss her
Like a spliff
Yeah
Light her up
Got a nice touch
And I know her name
[Prechorus]
When she starts to scream
I don't care
I don't care
When she cuts me deep
I don't care
I don't care
[Chorus]
Guess I died at twenty-seven
There's a hole inside my stomach
Got a headstone with my nickname on it
Saw my ghost on Channel Seven
In the pictures you uploaded
I'm a specter in a tabloid column
[Post-Chorus]
I don't wanna go to Heaven
Wanna haunt you in your bedroom
Like I promised I would do in my apartment
Guess I died at twenty-seven
There's a hole inside my stomach
Got a headstone with my nickname on it
[Bridge]
I'm not the same boy that you loved before
Not the same boy that you love anymore
I'm not the same boy that you loved before
Not the same boy that you love anymore
[Chorus]
Guess I died at twenty-seven
There's a hole inside my stomach
Got a headstone with my nickname on it
Saw my ghost on Channel Seven
In the pictures you uploaded
I'm a specter in a tabloid column
I don't wanna go to Heaven
Wanna haunt you in your bedroom
Like I promised I would do in my apartment
Guess I died at twenty-seven
There's a hole inside my stomach
Got a headstone with my nickname on it

[Verse 1]
I knew you were a big star
From your boots to your nice car
From your watch to your sunglasses
You're so classy

[Pre-Chorus]
Your name is known from town to town
So many women wanna wear your crown

[Chorus]
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You

[Chorus]
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You

[Verse 2]
When you say it
You don't mean it
But you don't know any other way
If I said I loved you
You wouldn't believe it
And you'd have nothing to say

[Pre-Chorus]
You're so used to having your heart break
So you treat them all like it's fake

[Chorus]
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You

[Chorus]
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You
Everything I need to know about you
You

[Verse 1]
You came in bright
Like a borrowed crown
I wore your name
Till it wore me down
Now the edges fray
On the thing I chased
Gold on my tongue
Dust in your place
[Pre-Chorus]
I kept the shine
You kept the slip
Held on tight
To a fading gift
[Chorus]
Expired halo
Still on my head
Expired halo
Fell off in red
Expired halo
I let it go
Expired halo
Now you know
[Verse 2]
I saw the cracks
In the Sunday glow
Little white lies
On the paper-thin gold
You said stay soft
I said stay true
But the shine got sick
And it cracked in two
[Pre-Chorus]
I kept the shine
You kept the slip
Held on tight
To a fading gift
[Chorus]
Expired halo
Still on my head
Expired halo
Fell off in red
Expired halo
I let it go
Expired halo
Now you know
[Bridge]
If it was sacred
Why'd it hurt so much?
If it was heaven
Why'd it turn to rust?
I don't need the burn
I don't need the proof
I was never made
To keep breaking for you
[Chorus]
Expired halo
Still on my head
Expired halo
Fell off in red
Expired halo
I let it go
Expired halo
Now you know