Your fool

My love, I’m your fool
I swore up and down I would not miss you
This desert needs no rain
I’ve drained myself of that dull, cloying ache

Without you I made my own little paradise,
The morning dew soothes the burns on my face
I sleep beneath the stars and dance beneath the sun
Like a dog set free, along the beach I run

But still, most nights you haunt me
I can’t stand to be alone,
Because I hear your voice floating down the dark hallways
A pale wraith to haunt my memories

Your touch like a razor in my dreams
I’ve began to find comfort in waking up screaming
This sorry routine keeps my thoughts steady
Like the moon and the sun, there’s a balance in instability

These days I feel nothing but distance
I’m left to shout in my glass house
The kids come by and they point and laugh,
They catch vague glimpses at the future as they take off running

I’m nothing but a scab,
Coarse, unsightly, but doing the job I suppose
Little by little I’m picked away
I fall to the street and wash away with the water

So love, I’m your fool
This paradise tasted as sweet as it did on your tongue
One day the clouds came and blocked out the songs
And one day the old dog could no longer run

I just laugh at the ashes of these last few years
Because my love, I lied, it does nothing but rain here

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