Parade

Flyaway stuck to your face

Like a new kind of shiny campaign

Tears track your cheek in the light

Wipe them away with your sleeve and look at me

 

Putting aside what I want

Like a parade for you, streamers and clout

Just when my back would break from all

Unsightly gymnastics

You turn away and it’s suddenly loneliness

Oh

 

Trying to keep it all down

Empathy for all the hidden deep wounds

Turn on your heel when it feels good

Leave me behind for something seductive

 

Putting you up on your box

I am so tired of holding you up

Just when my back would break from all

Unsightly gymnastics

You find yourself in a desert and ask this of me

Oh

 

Pushing it down to the rock

Bottom of who I am and what I want

Will you return to me what I can willingly give you?

Am I a vessel for fear to fall into?

I’ll be far enough soon, I won’t want to listen

I can’t bite the bullet, I can’t see your vision

You treat me like one of your ladies in waiting

To promise the waiting forever is simply untrue

Oh