[Intro]

Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles

As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles

And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold

He's borrowed more than he can pay, his debts are getting old

The cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke

The bottle always emptied well before the candles smoked

Tobacco always there on cue in someone else's glass

Someone else's secrets become someone else's path

[Chorus 1]

I know you well, I know you felt

Like it should've been someone else who fell

But I'll never forget your face

You melt into my life

[Verse 1]

I want the attention that she's getting

From your loving arms

You let me soak your face into my memory

Like you want me, and you carry me

Wanting more as I don't know you

I don't own you, I just sew you

Into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulder

[Verse 2]

Like a dream, you fill me up

And make me cold, just like a soldier

Trains her mind to do the killing

Even though he isn't willing

I have pain, and I am cold

Without your heat to make me bold

Just forget that we're not molded

We're just solitary soldiers

[Verse 3]

Given up on all this love stuff

It's made up and we're just older

I give up on you, we're over

I want reciprocal lovers

I want trust, and I want safety

I want space, and I need chasing

I want to feel that I'm the only girl

Around you who can know you

[Verse 4]

But I want to see you luring

Other women who can't own you

I want to see their faces

When you make them lose their graces

When you make them feel they're placeless

Like a chain around an object that keeps moving

You're a concept of a man and of an object

[Verse 5]

You are everything I wanted

All I seem to crave

Like a hero needs to save

Except when I get up close

There is a maggot on the rose

Like a magpie stealing shiny things

There's sometimes diamonds, sometimes tin

[Chorus 2]

You are my darkness, and you understand

I don't want anything but your hand

Just hold me steady, hold the frame

And I'll shoot again now

[Verse 6]

I can't stop thinking about you

And if you're stripping me down to

My brittle bones and crumbled joints

These open wounds just need some salt

Oh, it would be better if you left

If I can't see you, I can't step

Into the light you've cast about you

I can't have you, but I want you

[Chorus 3]

This obsession is not letting me slide

I feel I'm damaging myself to stay alive

I am destroying all I have to let this burn

This little flame is not so dangerous on its own