Jump off a building, I’ll take the fall

Like a bird in a cage, flightless against the wall of your room

I’ve got nothing to prove, I’m an actor

Sunken eyes, you’re wrapping your hands with a sinewy strand the best that you can

But you’re bleeding out, falling down from your stance, you’re a boxer

Tell me who clipped your wings, placed you under that glass

Who quelled your fire to make you so harmless

And tame like like an animal locked in a cage

Who stole the once rosy glow from your face

Ten miles high on a balcony you sit smoking your last cigarette of the evening

Choke on the ash while you look at the sky, the smoke dancing

All alone in a queen size bed, did you fill the space that my body left

Are you happier now than you ever were then? You’re a champion

Are you reborn did you find the light from before

Pull it out from my eye to take what’s yours

Did you find some holy retribution at my expense

Are you the lucky one

Left holding the gun

After it’s said and done

Are you absolved of all fault? Far above it all, such sagely wisdom so devout

Is this what you call love or as close as it gets

To use everyone up until they’ve got nothing to give

You say you want love, that’s not what you’ll get

You get something that’s tolerable and then you live with it