I'm trying not to break your heart

The taste of autumn nights feels like the city sliding down my veins

'Cause I've been working for the longest time here

On the first draft of a better life for you and me

So let's walk down the streets once captured in a distant song

They are vices we can now let go

To sail away with the irony we have left

And if there's no rhyme you know about the place I'm calling home

I'm still myself

I am trying not to break your heart

I am trying not to break your heart

I am trying not to let these lonely lights

Gleam all night

Holding back a brand new day

'Cause these are hurried times - too fast for us to try and understand.

And even if the minutes feel like lifetimes

It is still not slow enough, not how it should be.

So let's scrape out these borrowed lines that pet this pain of mine

Or just fake a double suicide

Then laugh it away, so hard it feels like a sin

And when there's no rhyme I know that could make this feel like home

I find myself

Here just trying not to break your heart

I am trying not to break your heart

I am trying not to make these lines a sign

That our lives

Might be reaching a dead end

I'm just trying not to break your heart

If there's no life you know in the place I'm calling home

See there is no such lie

As an unfamiliar sky

If there's no rhyme I know in the place you call your own

All I need is some time

And a world to redefine

Like the poet searching through the dark,

with the guts it takes to start a start,

for the word that might just be the spark

to a verse that's doomed to fall apart

I'm here trying not to break, just trying not to break your heart