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2005-07-23 19:50:54 ET Did you ever really love me? She's desire beneath a streetlight And this feels more like a fire on the inside With her name coming to life as my mouth spits the gasoline Is this a dream or is this really happening Like I'm dieing everyday instead of living This is never put the right way but I'm trying Cuz no one says my name like you do breathing in the night This surrounding city is nothing without that believe me To cast away the shallow lies Is to curse my palms with the itch for the pen I'm found in a better state when letter and page are one in the same Connect me to her thoughts as I think this through This is lust or it's love - nothing to tell me different nothing to prove And I'm breathing with both eyes closed for peace, for calm, and for you Think this ambitious pretentious but nothing short of wishful It's just me here without the others to stop us So show me your hands, I'm not taking any chances Should have checked your lips instead but it's too late for me now Just get out while you still can I'll hold them back with all the words tied to the heart Oh it's so threatening And somehow I know which way to go and you never had a choice Oh it's so demanding So push back the throng of teeth and nails all around you And wait for an apologetic shyness you don't deserve Yeah I know how appealing that sounds right about now It stings like boiling water on the softest of skin Caught off guard backed against the most cunning of walls Of steam that melts and pulls away the hands of clocks They watch and they wait and when the chance comes to strike And we will be numb at noon or by a quarter till Whichever I choose I hide behind Left or right and I've got 20/20 in either eye And this is more than just a name written in the crudest of manuscripts This soreness since I decided to awake with more than just a smile Of the desire beget of the want and - I need the struggle of battles fought again and again Patience fails to lock it's fingers and I go alone like always With futility born of brutality against heart and - It's mine against yours until the bitter end Falling head over heels into the flames It burns - oh yes - it burns like hell But it means you were really alive And really here and there, turned on and torn off Like paper wings melting in the sun She's desire beneath a streetlight at night And I'm hiding in the dark |
