Everlore

Break my soul in two, looking for you but you’re right here

Where’s the girl who would throw blankets over my barbed wire?

Back when we were still changing for the better, wanting was enough

But your words shoot to kill when you’re mad

Now there’s an ache in me, put there by the ache in you

And I’m left begging for the footnotes in the story of your life

Reaching out across the sea that you put between you and me

I think I’ve seen this film before

I’d give you my sunshine, give you my best

But the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me

I can’t make it go away by making you a villain 

After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that

I always felt I must look better in the rear view

You drew stars around my scars, but now I’m bleeding

And you asked me to dance but I said, dancing is a dangerous game

It’s hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you

I rewind the tape but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lost

Did I close my fist around something delicate, did I shatter you?

Your faithless love’s the only hoax I believe in

And just like a folk song our love will be passed on

With one single thread of gold tying me to you

If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were still around

But I’m a fire, and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm

If your cascade ocean wave blues come

Just one single glimpse of relief, to make some sense of what you’ve seen

And if you’re ever tired of being known for who you know, you know, you’ll always know me

I still talk to you, when I’m screaming at the sky

And when you can’t sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies

Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand

You taught me a secret language I can’t speak with anyone else

But still you dropped my hand while dancing

So much for summer love and saying it’s us because you weren’t mine to lose

We never painted by the numbers, but we were making it count

I bet you had a marvelous time ruining everything

You would always go past where our feet could touch

My life was a willow and it bent right to your wind

And you’ll poke that bear ’til the claws come out and you find something to wrap your noose around

I think you did it but I just can’t prove it

But If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it, will it patch these broken wings

Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you

I’m still on that trapeze, I’m still trying everything, to keep you looking at me