[background vocals]

I don't understand how anybody could love me

[poem]

I be the thorn in the side of a rose stem

Know red as petal and blood

Know the taste of metal and mud

Bury my heart in the laughs of lovers

Brush the dust off time

Set to flame anything left unhealed and still alive

Grit the teeth

Kiss the neck

Take a sip of pseudo death

Fold my fear in arms of lovers

Harm never the night

Fall asleep in strangers beds

My heavy head made light

Kiss the chaos into mouths of lovers

Tell them yellow lies

Turn back to black tourmaline when they close their eyes

When you say love you mean forever

When I say love I mean for now

I mean for however long it takes to know me

Show me your hands

Hold me like sand through fingers

Linger only until it feels real

Make a meal of me

Leave me when the love comes

Leave me when the sun comes up

I really can not love someone

Right now