I’ll drink myself to sleep one more night as I revel in memories of
An embrace I can no longer request with frequency or any sort of meaning
It seems that pride has swallowed you whole, but I can’t complain
‘Cause ambition has drove me away
And though you say “myths like love are dead chemicals,”
I’ll hopelessly breathe life to this fable
I won’t burry it

Breathing down her neck I said the word “forever” once
She shot me down and said,
“Words like forever, no! Not for us,”
But her warning has been…
Disregarded in a fashion one might call delusional
But it gives me the strength
To push through the greatest pain I’ve ever known
Known since we’ve learned…

Love is not patient
Love is not kind
But some things
They don’t fade in time
And if to love is to suffer
Then to let you go
Is the only way that I know
To suffer with honor
But I would set pride aside
Just to live in your eyes
And though you say these chemicals are dead
I know they still linger in me

I won’t burry this
No, these chemicals aren’t dead
I could never bury it

And the lurking though of putting my life on hold
Perches itself on my shoulder
Daring me to dismiss all my dreams
And find identity in yours
We both know we would never rest easy
Living as an accessory
But I can’t find peace in separation
Only regret in parting ways

Breathing down her neck I said the word “forever” once
She shot me down and said,
“Words like forever, no! Not for us,”

We grew listening behind closed doors
Just listening, as love died around us
And I’d done anything;
Cried with my mouth shut just to preserve us

Love is not patient
Love is not kind
But some things
They don’t fade in time
And if to love is to suffer
Then to let you go
Is the only way that I know
To suffer with honor
But I would set pride aside
Just to live in your eyes
And though you say these chemicals are dead
I know they still linger in me

I’m cluttered with memories of time that slipped from me
They don’t fade
They don’t dim
They just replay
And never spread thin
But this affliction sends me spiraling
Through a cluster of emotion
I can’t shake
I can’t break
I can barely take
So I’ll hold onto us tight
I won’t bury this.