i need you like i need water in my lungs.
like a picture hung in a darkened room.
i need you like i need a beautiful painting in my tomb.
where i lay dead, but still wait for you.
like a flower buried in a snowy end, waiting for june.
i need you like i need a disease.
an epidemic waiting to seize my beating heart.
you were gone long before the start.
and then dawn came, i was left in the dark.
maybe this is payback for my actions i never claimed.
i was the one to blame, i left you there.
open heart, bleeding love you wanted to share.
was i supposed to let you bleed out on the floor?
i said it before, but i only mean it now.
i'm sorry for loving you, i never meant to.
i've always heard that love is true.
"o, that i were a glove upon that hand,
that i might touch that cheek."
love is cheap, love will be the death of me.
i sit here and weep while he kisses the lips of another.
it's betrayal of the darkest kind, he was once a lover.
a lover of me, a lover of many.
there will be plenty more lips touching his.
not one of them will be mine.
he is the needle, and i follow like thread.
i need you like i need a hole in the head.
like i need a bed of hot coals.
to lay upon while i shed more tears for you.
i will never construe your reasons for not loving me too.
i'm here at my point, and you at yours.
my waves crash against your shores, no matter how hard i try.
i may not need you, but i want you and i don't know why.
i want you like i want this high.
like i want to sleep and dream of better things.
i want you like i want ecstasy, happiness, and wings.
i want the wings you give me back in my possession.
they only appear when you're around.
i have a confession, i am yours through and through.
even if you don't want me, i'm here for you.
like gum on your shoe or fleas on your dog.

you want me like you want a disease.
an epidemic waiting to seize your beating heart.
you want me like you want water in your lungs.
but you need me like you need air.
you just don't know it yet.