Ribs

Can I hold your love between my ribs

While you weigh me down to something thin?

When I get back up feeble and frail

Then I won't see you as the same again

You were, oh, so quiet

When I needed you

Was clamoring for something true

Now I, if I close my eyes

I can feel you

Vanish into blinding light

To what I can't recognize

Now I splinter and divide

But go on breathing

Leave me to my own device

Time was all I'd need to see it

Before I quit

I got to vent

But the sorrow draws lines across my chest, ooh

Pale in my lips

My chin's so high it broke my neck

And I can never see you as the same again

I bear the shadow of my mind

I sink into the scene to hide

All the color is a mess

Is there a means

Is there and end to this?

Oh, I, if I close my eyes

I can feel you

Vanish into blinding light

To what I can't recognize

Now I, splinter and divide

But go on breathing

Leave me to my own device

Time was all I'd need to see it

Drift further by the day

You took a twist of a memory that we made

Ribbed with loneliness and shame

All to my own dismay

I, if I close my eyes I can feel you

Vanish into blinding light

To what I can't recognize

Now I splinter and divide

But go on breathing

Leave me to my own device

Time was all I'd need to see it