4 quite some time now
you and i have been searching
trying 2 find a quiet place to breathe
but everytime we chill
the past is lurking
waiting 2 deceive
what can we believe
i want desperately 2 believe you
when you say
dee i love you
but past relationships have kept
my heart in chains
and when i say to you
baby i am not him
you can trust me
you refrain
recoil in pain
i wonder how could true love
have eluded such a special person
when i think of you
it worsens
my resolve
but when i hear the doubt
in your voice creeping
secrets i start keeping
nothing is solved
well
when i am up
you are right back down
when i am silly
you are profound
i live in the black
you live in the white
sunny days
and stormy nights
until the dam gives way
flooded with regret
cant find a shade of gray
cant live without me
i cant live with you today
i run 2 you
you walk slowly away
trust i know is such a unique distinction
2 many precriptions we have needed
2 fight old lovers colds
yet when i write a love story
and say baby dont you know
we are the greatest story ever told
you say no
adam and eve were deceived
that story was sold
never let back into the fold
it always seems you and i
are much better
living in our own privite security
but eventually
we must face the doubters
after all
that is reality
we promise 2 never listen
yet 2 steps in we abort our mission
until we cannot be heard above
the cacophony
voices determined 2 drip with
pure jealousy
only purpose 2 separate you and me
if love is not living
then what is the reason we live for it
one day we adore it
the next day we abhor
it seems as if on sundays
it is so easy 2 love
but come mondays blues
it becomes a chore
you have tried 2 walk away
but i can see in your eyes
you know there is more
well
i finally come around
now you are lost not found
you shout my name
i cant hear a sound
you cry the tears of a clown
i lament the past at the burial mounds
until we have wasted
yet another day
failing 2 find that elusive
shade of gray
paying too much attention to yesterday
until the angels of love grow
tired of waiting and reluctantly
fly away
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