You don’t have to try to be yourself, you don’t have to try to be true, I remember when I couldn’t tell the difference between wanting to be myself and wanting to be part of you Thinking that us together was so much stronger than us apart I tried, really tried to be authentic And there it was, this non-pretentious act I put on and for who exactly My body played its role, poised, perfect, stoic My mind was purely confused There was robotic motion, robotic movements, robotic The whole situation clashed with my perfectly cultivated values The whole act started to fall apart, I couldn’t and didn’t try to hide it I took a long hard look at myself in what I can only call a funhouse mirror You looked at me too, a twisted version of what used to be there And you smiled, smiled that crooked smile that hid from me your true thoughts I didn’t know what to believe and it happened The crack got bigger and bigger and I snapped Like one of those huge trees slowly and gently worn by time I guess I should consider it a blessing that I wasn't struck by lightning I don’t even want to know how close I came to an earlier demise But What was it about you What was it about me Why didn’t I realize it’s called falling because you only realize you’re in trouble until you’re staring at the pavement 5 seconds away from splat And that was the problem with it all The idea that love was something worth dying for when I wasn’t sure it was something worth fighting for