Brick by Ben Folds Five

6 am day after christmas
I throw (1)________ clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car (2)________ is freezing
The world is sleeping I am numb

Up the (3)____________ to her apartment
She is (4)____________ up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to (5)________ us out

And we drive
Now that I have (6)__________ someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm (7)____________ nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They (8)________ her name at 7:30
I (9)________ around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts (10)________ I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before
She's a (11)__________ and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm (12)____________ nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It (13)____________ (14)________ she was not fine
They (15)________ me, "son, it's time to tell the truth"
She broke down, and I (16)__________ down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving back to her apartment
For the (17)____________ we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I (18)________ it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm (19)________________ slowly

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