Your Worst Pronunciation (Teasing Love)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You still say croissant like it owes you money
Three syllables and every one of them a crime
I've corrected you in four languages
And you've gotten worse on purpose every time

You told me my new haircut looked like Tuesday
I said your shoes look like they gave up in the store
We've been trading insults since the seventh grade
And every single one of them means more

[Chorus]
I love you like a mispronunciation
The kind I'd never bother fixing twice
Teasing is the grammar of the people
Who forgot how to be nice and landed right

[Verse 2]
You do an impression of me ordering
That's three percent accurate and ninety-seven mean
I do an impression of you parallel parking
That cleared a restaurant in twenty-seventeen

Your mother thinks I'm rude and she's not wrong
My mother thinks you're loud and that's her best
We've been each other's worst-kept running joke
And somehow passed each other's only test

[Chorus]
I love you like a mispronunciation
The kind I'd never bother fixing twice
Teasing is the grammar of the people
Who forgot how to be nice and landed right

[Bridge]
If I stopped making fun of you
You'd call to check if I was dead
The absence of the insult is the siren
Mockery means I've got nothing kind to say
And nothing kind to say means everything is fine
And fine is how we spell it

[Outro]
Croissant
You still say it wrong
Don't ever stop