Biding my time, letting tensions climb, till every word strains to sound right. Hoping for more than a life of keeping score and having to be right.
Art deco crumbles and fades in Fairview, where we?re setting our stage. Helicopters blink like stars up above, and when we talk it?s like we?re almost
Bet a lesson like her, with cinnamon scars and honey-eyed hopes, hurt so sweet that you longed to tumble again down sugary slopes. You love so much
Dim echoes of life, lived in five-hour segments. We paint out our eyes with pictures so meaningless. Pretend it?s all worth every drop of consequence
I?m living through the sounds of the apartments that surround me. The human drama plays all hours of the day, free. And when I get sick of listening
I?m leaving for Phoenix, Arizona as a yellow sun collapses to the ground You blink as dust collects on your eyelashes, and all the words you?re searching
The lunchtime crowd is clearing out when, with feigned casualness, you say, ?It?s a shame we?re out of time, ?cause I had something on my mind.? I thought
You walk into the room, poured into your dress, detached in dull routine, but beautiful nonetheless. I can?t stop staring, and when you speak I?m gone
Awkward shards of conversation reveal a washed-out obligation. Detached from duty and grace, I look in your eyes and see a need to save face. And I
Wait, wait so long for the pages to align that I?ll wait, wait so long, it?ll never be in time. Oh the odd, odd, odds aren?t looking too good for me.
I?m shipwrecked and hopeless when your boat arrives You offer me water and I drink in your eyes Beautiful and certainly sure of yourself I question everything
