I climbed the fence to let you in around back
and caught my arm in the post, let's pretend i meant for that
Last thing you did was paint those photographs black
and say "I'm tired of you and these opaque memories"
I'm a wreck
gone are the days where the
silence and pain that wander
beneath my brain
are merely thoughtless incantations
Hollow, sloven miscreations
Say it's true
Say you like me
and I will
caress your heart
until I tear us apart
with my misled discrimination
against anyone that's wasted my time
And when I go
Yeah, when I go
Write my name across your arm
In ink that's made of memories-
permanent
just faded- not forgotten
beneath the surface
I was born
on that September day
You smiled at me
while I surreptitiously
I put my pieces into play
assuming that you knew the game
How could I-
how could I have known?
Could I have nobody
and still be happy?
I ask myself that everyday
With no answer I must leave
and you must stay
But when I go
Yeah, when I go
Write my name across your arm
In ink that's made of memories-
permanent
just faded- not forgotten
beneath the surface
I've been dreaming
Wondering to myself
What would life be like on the ocean floor?
But my juvenile mind asks
What's wrong with life right here, upon the shore?
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