Dust on the Bible in the motel drawer I called your name but you don't live here anymore Ashes on the dashboard, lipstick smeared like war Took the backroads just to feel something pure You left your boots by the bed Ghosts in my head Whispers through the cornfield Of every word I never said I kissed the preacher's son behind the steeple Tasted sin in the shape of something legal Drove your truck into the bay Still hear your voice when I pray And I'm gonna regret this forever The way your hands held mine like tethered leather Baptized in the rain, like we knew better But we danced in the fire like it wouldn't burn ever I'm gonna regret this forever I swore I'd stay, then left in bad weather Now your name is a storm in my letters And I can't outrun the guilt, not ever Crucifix on my neck turns green with time Your shotgun wedding ring still fits mine Cicadas scream in the pines The devil's in the rearview, but he's always kind I carved our names in the chapel wood Right before I ran, just like I knew I would Mama always said I was born to destroy Even God won't answer a broken girl's noise Black veil blowing in the August wind Thought love would save me, it never did I buried the truth behind your grave Now all I got left is the mess I made And I'm gonna regret this forever Like a hymn I can't forget, no matter the weather Thunder in my chest, lightning in your letter This was never meant to end, but I cut the tether I'm gonna regret this forever A name on my tongue that I won't remember But your ghost in my lungs gets heavier, heavier Every time I try to breathe you out, never Lay me down where the flood came through Call my name if you're dying too But don't wait up at the edge of town 'Cause I'm the storm now I'm the tempest now I'm the tempest