Scandalicious.

Everyone knows, they talk about

This is such a scandalous ---

All dressed up and no place to go


Rumors say that you run away

From the closet of your friends
Beautiful, and yet so alone


If I could make a way in your dreams

Through night's shadow you know I would

In your heart my hands would be untied


You would laugh and say you are 'fine'

Brushing tears out of your eyes

Beautiful, and yet so alone

The greatest confidence.

Stormclouds clutter up the skyline
But they don't bother anymore
We hang our blankets up to dry
Tomorrow night again we'll try
To wander through the drizzling outdoors

Lately I've been left to thinking
These languid thoughts won't let me be
Oh lovely lady long away
I'm speechless, but what could I say
What could I ever say to make you see

Morning wanders through the curtains
The clock stirs and sleep falls away
Stretch kitten-like upon the bed
Open your eyes and lift your head
Let's welcome in another dreaming day.

Oh how all this dreaming leaves me tangled
And in the midst your face is all I see
Sweat upon your body lingers
As I bloody up my fingers
With songs that place you right next door to me.

Leaned into you.

You play a song with a picture that gets stuck in my head
On a short summer night with the stars closeted
In an unbroken sky stretched as far as a heart

Over too many miles and too many bit parts


You play a song with the weather coming out of the blue

With the rain pouring down I found shelter in you

As the storm passed over tried to file away

So I could recall those nights, and I could recall those days



I still recall


Your touch when I leaned into you

The beat my heart would quicken to

Be



Just one more day


You said I couldn't be sincere

Just wait and I would reappear

Be



Just one more day


You play a song matching movements in my melody line

With these mountains between we were just out of time

I tried to keep watching as you set me alight
So I could recall those days, and I could recall those nights



I still recall


Your eyes when I leaned into you
The chance to say I wanted to
Be



Just one more day


Growing old's an easy way that you
Give up on things you wanted to

Be



Just one more day.

Another long goodbye.

Wonder how you measure out the days before you leave

Wake more days unhappy, still you can't help but believe
Spending tears is cheaper than the pain of being alone

And won't it be a shame to climb so far just to let go


Wishes paired with fear would tend to keep you up at night

Burning midnight oil with your plans to make this right

Only to be gasping waiting for the curtain call
Sometimes holding on leaves you with nothing left at all


In the end you've traced your steps back where this all began

Looking for someone to hold and treat you better than
The one who said he loved you and the one who came before
Someone with a hole in their life shaped to fit in yours