Lyrics

Some draw a portrait, some draw a gun
We are drawn as we circle the sun
One look at you, my fate had been spun
My heart came undone.
I drew a comma over a man
underscored like an anchor on sand
There my loyalty lies:
Little parallel lines.

But I wanted, yes I wanted to fall
into your arms but hard heart, harder, hardest
she wanted it all
Now I’m haunted, I could not let you in
but in the game of hard-hard, harder, hardest
nobody can win.

In mid-sentence, I dangled a thought
And now there’s quiet enough for a pin drop
A silent echo would only rebound
It burst into elliptical sound.

And I wanted, yes I wanted to fall
into your arms but hard heart, harder, hardest
she wanted it all
Now I’m haunted, I could not let you in
but in the game of hard-hard, harder, hardest
nobody can win.

With a period point predictively placed
like a joke I hadn’t prepared
The words were rough, naked things that failed to spell out
even a letter of how much I cared.
There’s no way you could know it is you above most
from damage I’d wish to protect
But now parallel lines cannot punctuate two lives that will not intersect.

In the land of fire and ice
of dry-witted deserts on altering nights
My mouth is open but only to taste
language written in haste.

And I wanted, yes I wanted to fall
into your arms but hard heart, harder, hardest
she wanted it all
Now I’m haunted, I could not let you in
but in the game of hard-hard, harder, hardest
nobody can win. Nobody can win.

She wanted it all
Now I’m haunted