Stifling

This day is stifling

You're sprawled out like a king

On the sheets of my queen-sized bed

And I'm

Too hot to lie beside

Possessed of idle mind

This calm is a false friend

Jealousy

I suspect jealousy

Something is changing me

Real slow from the inside out

It seems

You mean too much to me

Too much for comfort, see

The cause is the cure now

We fought a silent war in a hardware store

And the air was thick as paint

Though I carried it on I knew that I was wrong

But I fight when I'm afraid

I come with guns a-blazing

Someone once

I forget who it was

Said, "Do not think so much

You can't hear what your heart says."

But it speaks

In tugs and puddle-leaps

And bangs my ribs to pieces

Thoughts are the safe bet

We fought a silent war in a hardware store

And the air was thick as paint

Though I carried it on I knew that I was wrong

But I fight when I'm afraid

My guns will come a-blazing

A lesser man would be afraid

And how you razed me

To the ground

And how you brought me down

With the sound of the shaming as you went out

The cause is the cure now

We fought a silent war in a hardware store

And the air was thick as paint

Though I carried it on I knew that I was wrong

But I fight when I'm afraid

With guns I come a-blazing

A lesser man would break free

"I'm sorry" was all I meant to say