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Bitter Truth Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Our missing pieces walk between us
When we were moving through the door
You called 'em mine, I called 'em yours
You make me get so angry
And I'd stay there on my own
We both make peace but all alone

[Chorus]
Some call it talking blues (talking blues)
Some call it bitter truth
Some call it getting even in a song

[Verse 2]
I can't read it, didn't mean it
As you would rage how I was wrong
Life is too short, and you'd stay too long
Let's be honest, we were strongest till I let you drag me down
I was sorry then, I'm not now

[Bridge]
Some get a golden heart
Some get a riverside
Some get a house that lets the years go by

[Verse 3]
That life is ending, you seem contented
While the graveside flowers die
I call 'em yours, you call 'em mine
Nothing makes silence like experience
There's a message in my eyes
You'd better love yourself, 'cause I tried

[Chorus]
Some call it talking blues (talking blues)
Some call it bitter truth
Some call it getting even in a song
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Cover art for Bitter Truth lyrics by Iron & Wine

This song is to me about the break up of a marriage. The narrator realised he was being dragged down, and left. He was sorrowful about it at the time, but now knows its for the best.

@basher132 I think it's about a couple that lost a kid and they resent each other over it. The last verse said life that is ending not love that is ending. Idk I just feel like the phrase "I called em yours you called em mine."

 
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