Take A Chance On Me.

& I promise I won't let you down

flipping pretty pages past your sick imaginiation

turning down an offer just to tell them all you did

searching for some answers in the factory on the water

tearing down the docks just to build another bridge

laying in the sunlight coming through the slats above us

roof's been gone for ages but we haven't felt a thing

rain comes heavy distant drowning

rivers flood and twist to cities

taking down whatever happens to stand in disaster's way

sometimes felt like this is my book

writing pages from my head to my hands

signed at the bottom with a dot, an x, an o

reading in the dim light coming from your bedroom window

stopping every other paragraph to glance outside and see

when you'll come back to me, if your promises will make good

stop to listen for the whir of your old engine heart machine

your feet carried you so far

why won't they run back to me

i'm lonely distant waiting, you're too busy to even sleep

tunnels through the city take me off to somewhere pretty

i want to see you soon but i can wait another year

i've always hated the way that your face contorts when you smile

but at the same time i can't keep it together when i see those teeth

tie me up in ribbons lace my fingers to the woodwork

keep me in confinement waiting until you return

adventures may await you with every step that you take further

from this little home we've built in the midst of this daunting city

 i'm frightened when i think that you may never come around

again, and tell me it'll all be fine

just to leave me.