I hope to god that you're not listening
I open doors but all perception needs a limelight
I hope my burning was a pleasurable experience
I'd laugh at your confusion if I didn't love you right

I know your black heart
I watched it turn on me as well
I never thought that I would leave myself
a blind and withered will
I've seen your true cards
and I'd always try it all again
cos I know that underneath the marionette
you're warmer than the rest

I hope you find yourself advantaged
I hope the tendrils all around give up
and leave her alone
I know the weight you hold is endless
I'd never try to further break a rock
of already shattered stone

You loved my blue heart
but you twisted all my blood around
I never thought I'd lead myself
up to the altar just to drown
Maybe there's a dark art
the kind tat cruel possession is
Those simple-minded rules were never meant
for fools like you and me
I never test love
I see it all in one dissolve
Maybe I'm a crude man
but maybe one day I will find resolve

I know it's never all for nothing
Any deeper meaning, life lesson,
or high truth seems to pale
Incanted bones of red thread
a dime a dozen factory line
I know it's you that I would
choose to pass the time

Honey it's age old
And don't think she don't miss you as well
Unrequited, tied, or jilted
True or false I know it very well
I know the time holds
I know I saw space in her eyes
I know that what I feel is what
I need to learn to leave behind

I heard the mute say
and it's the whole reason she prays
The human heart the oldest organised religion
And the blind man wrote
and it's the whole reason I don't
The circle lies of life will always lead to vision

Honey it's age old
and don't think I don't miss you as well
Unrequited, tied, or jilted
True or false I know it very well
I know the time holds
I know I saw verse in his eyes
I know that what I was is what
I need to learn to leave behind

Better Now than Before

Age Old Eros

I know shame
Like the back of my hand
Like the back of my hand
Like the scar under my left thumb

I know pain
Like an abused boy
Like an abused girl
All alone with a fear of the dark

Why am I always cutting my tongue
and drinking the blood
What a relief you're sick of following me
I said oh what a shame
Why am I always trying my luck
like something will change

I know rain
Like it's pouring well
Say it all ends well
Sooner or later something will arc

I know fair
Like it's love or war
All is ending, sure
But you and I could get what we want
Could get what we're able

Why are you always cutting your tongue 
and drinking the blood
What a relief sick of following dreams
Said oh what a shame
I don't know man try your luck
Maybe something will change

Cutting my Tongue

All my love
All of my plans
They're long gone
Buried in the sand
Go stand tall
All that you can
All I know
One day I'll make plans

But you read an awful lot into
the things I say when I'm mad
You live upon my spine
And I read a lot of self help books
to make me much better than I am
You linger on my mind

But I love you like I
love the winter and the fall
You can have it all
You can have it all
And I crawl to you 
on broken knees
and I hold your silver tongue
And you will me with your open palm
your open palm

There'll be lives
you cannot have
Lost at sea
One day you break fast
Buried box deep in the sand
All my life
All that I can

But you read an awful lot into
the things I say when I'm mad
You live upon my spine
And I read a lot of self help books
to make me much better than I am
You linger on my mind

But I love you like I
love the winter and the fall
When around it all says
What's the difference?
What's the difference?
And I crawl to you 
on broken knees
and I hold your silver tongue
And you will me with your open palm
your open palm

But you read an awful lot into
the things I said when I was mad
You linger on my mind
And I read a lot of self help books
to make me much better than I am
You linger on my mind
You linger on my mind

Sugar Grass