Love, Fear, or Hunger

Keeping secrets never left me any peace

Nothing would feel so much like relief

As a close ear leaning in to hear

I fall fast, baby, and I fall steep

Nights you don't call, honey

I don't sleep so good not so good anymore

You don't want to be the cause of hurt

You don't want me feeling so unsure

And I can't bear to think of time you spent with her

Is that the beginning of love?

Or jealous fear and lonely hunger?

Swimming out into open ocean

It's an unending sea far as I can see

Everything is so much bigger than me

I can't fathom the beginning of it all

I won't count on a happy end

But anything is possible

You don't want to be the cause of hurt

You don't want to make me unsure

I can't bear to think of your memories of her

Is that the beginning of love?

Or jealous fear and lonely hunger?

How will I know if this is something good?

Will I know if that something good's gone sour

Will I know if I'm lying to myself?

Will I be brave and go? If I run, am I a coward?

You don't want to be the cause of hurt

You hate the ways I'm insecure

I can't bear to think you with her

Is that the beginning of love? Or jealous fear and lonely hunger?

Is this love? Or jealous fear and lonely hunger?