It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful, Unless It's Beautiful Lyrics

She said the sleepers on the tracks have woken up
It's the end of the line, I guess our luck is up
It was fun while it lasted cause nothing ever does
Love has lost its meaning, it was wasted on us

In the electrical storm you were running wild
You had a death-wish, you were a child
I came to baring a lightning bolt
If you came back as the deep sea I would come back as the salt

It's like your head is stuck in a tightening vice
Your ears are deaf to your friends' advice
Cause you know that your heart will never be full
It doesn't always have to be beautiful...
Unless it's beautiful

Okay, leave now, leave now, if you just can't stay
Cause there's nothing worse than somebody pretending away
The years of their youth they will never get back
So I'll go home and practice the traits you said I lack
Like listening to the thunder of your heart
And how with every other beat we grow further apart
Love was always gonna be hard to give up?
But I'm thinking that you'll never love anybody else as much

But it's ugly, it's ugly now, yeah I know
But you never give things enough time to grow
It's like driving through a carnival
It doesn't always have to be beautiful...
Unless it's beautiful

Baby, I know it's over
Don't tell me
You'll speak 'till you're sober
Now we know its true
But waiting never quite felt like waiting
When waiting was with you

Baby, I know it's over
Don't tell me
You'll speak 'till you're sober
Now we know its true
But waiting never quite felt like waiting
When waiting was with you

So let me tell you, tell you, a thing or two
About how to survive when there's a me and a you
It's awful, it's gruesome, its something, it's cruel
Forever you will ask out/how this happened to you?
Cause I'm always thinking, thinking about where you are
Who you're with and if you're mind is far
From what we do when we're alone
It's all too much for me and now the wall hits the foam?

It's like your head is stuck in a tightening vice
Your ears are deaf to your friends' advice
Cause you know that your heart will never be full
It doesn't always have to be beautiful...
Unless it's beautiful

Baby, I know it's over
Don't tell me
You'll speak 'till you're sober
Now we know its true
But waiting never quite felt like waiting
When waiting was with you

Baby, I know it's over
Don't tell me
You'll speak 'till you're sober
Now we know its true
But waiting never quite felt like waiting
When waiting was with you

(Thanks to Rhona for these lyrics)