I burn and melt
Liquify and drip down
From the inside out
And like the candle wax
Left from each of our nights
I cool again
More crooked than I was before

Weak as a a ten ton weight on a wire for you
My knees just buckle,
Yours give too
We listen to rock music under the orange moon
Then some acoustic
Some rhythm n blues
The stormy fade
Over your gorgeous, angry face
You’re a heavenly tumbling sky
I’m washed clean in your rain
Electric guitars
A few more bars
All leather, metal and jade

I wish you could see the steel-*****
ribs I carry
My backbone of shiny titanium
The diamond whites of my eyes
You can’t imagine how fast I’ve had to hold
How tight I’ve clutched my very soul
Close
Just how thoroughly strong I had to be
To become this delicate for you

Trials and trying times we have
Young hearts beating down a burnt race track
You know I’d bet on yours
The man with a plan kicked in a few locked doors,
And stumbled through the frame
The angel he’d seen in his dreams
Cried tears that fell to his name
Written on the floor
It’s nobody’s fault,
So what are we fighting for?
I would’ve given my all,
Then just a little bit more
Biting the hand that holds
Will turn it fair and cold
In defense

Standing tall and warm,
You can be so hard and hold so fast
And I’m still trying to break away from the mistakes I’ve had to taste,
They linger on my tongue
I overflow
I pour into the grass like a garden hose
Sometimes you set your metal bucket just before the flowers
Like you worry my rivers will drown us
You just appeared as an ocean to me
I waste my ink
Writing on the wooden gate you’ve built on the beach

Ask me how I can say
That you’re my forever
You’re my Calvary soldier
I’m both the princess and the tower  
I tell you that I just know
As sure as the sun
And the white of my bones
Hot, fast and always
Is how I think of you
Like summer traffic in the city
Cool, dangerous, wet
Swimming in the east end streets
Right where my mouth and your fingers meet
Inside the velvet of a midnight train
You hold me close and we both take the blame
For this incredible, difficult, beautiful thing

The beauty in breaking down
Is how we fall apart to maybe finally stand
I set the house aflame just to keep us warm,
Broke all the glass panes in the unlocked door  
Opened my sword case in vain
It’s only a weapon if it can hurt you,
And I bruise from the pouring rain
Though I couldn’t go on like this another single day,
What I would do
To be your exception again

This rock that I carry in my chest
Pumps adrenaline
And tries to crawl up my throat
I try to let you go
I lay bare in bed and I’m burning up
Each breath quick, hot, and not enough
I’m a racehorse with water in her lungs

Having to hold back,
In my bones I feel the ache
Every step my pointed toes beg to take
Toward you
The tide you pull, the waves you break
Every muscle I own works to stay in place
Lover , if you crash once too many
I won’t slip and drift out
I turn my head away, I turn around
And walk on water

The way you touch me
Like I’ve never been here before
Like every silent night,
Was just another door
To the way I take you in
To where heaven starts
When the space between us ends
Like a golden cracking thunder
You bend and pull entire rivers
How could I ever want another?
Just how could I ever be the same  
Do you see the twilight through the curtains,
How it lights up your name?
I say it softly into your neck  
Baby, all the power that you give
I’ll breathe it out and give it back again

In that moment,
I would’ve traded all my luck
For you to just stay
My final night till this next moon,
As far as this moment,
My last with you
I would’ve said anything
For you to sit down
And resign yourself to the humming sound
Of our hearts in our ears
The sheets slipping like your car shifting gears  
And burning every fence
Stretching out the minutes like lace
You tie around my neck and wrists

I saw you in the light of the Mayfair sun
And the sky cracked open
Wide, and blinding
Bigger than the whole city
Deeper than lighting striking a valley
Hot white silver as my heart
As holy as the ocean
With no end, and no clear start
Velvet like the lines in your palms
Breathtaking as the thread we’re hanging on

Drinking gin in the park
You look at me
And you’re every single stop, long pause, start
You’re everything that sets a jump in my heart
Everything I want to breathe in
You are mid August
On the backs of my legs
The smell on my hair,
It gives away that I’ve been
Curled into your chest,
My face in your neck,
Pleading for you to stay
Praying to a righteous God
That for us,
It’s just another Thursday