take away the paper moon
take away the words she shouted
take away the steering wheel
take away the times I doubted you
take away the double-paned
storm windows in your room
take away the april air
and how everything started to bloom around you
sometimes I think that it’s too soon to fall in love with sunshine
in a year I’m sure you will be out of sight but not out of mind
sometimes I want to pull the sky down to the ground
but now I just want to be around
take away sitting on a wall
fighting gravity tooth and nail
take it away and I will not fall, I said
I will just never exhale
that’s when I thought that if I didn’t try, i would not break
that’s when I thought even breathing was a fatal mistake
that’s when I kept my fractured heart low to the ground
and now I just wanna be around
take away the city street
take away the afternoon light
take away the subtle heartbeat
and the birds that explode into flight
from those power lines that as I gazed
you smiled and set my world ablaze
I watched the flames as they grew higher
I took a breath and caught on fire
and all the king’s hoses
and all the king’s firemen
couldn’t make me turn away again
