Better

I’m still in the pool

You left me in

And I thought it’d be cool

To be

Melted down

To be water on the ground

You could walk on or swim through

Here I am at the top again

Dreaming that you let me in

Talk me down, talk me down

Talk me down

We leave our marks on things

That will never be ours

The streets are scarred

The trees are carved

With names that glow like

Diamond rings on one knee

In a nice restaurant

I’m better now

Those dreams are gone

Cause I thought it’d be you

And me

Hovering ‘round everything

I knew

We’d be, if autumn flowers could

Just hold out ‘til spring

And shake off the snowfall

Here I am at the top again

Desperate for oxygen

Talk me down, talk me down

Here I am at a loss again

Starving for oxytocin

Talk me down, talk me down

We leave our marks on things

That will never be ours

The streets are scarred

The trees are carved

With names that glow like

Diamond rings on one knee

In a nice restaurant

I’m better now

Those dreams are gone

Fading faster

In the picture you took of us

Just the two of us

There’s no future in

This phantom limb

I’ve sown to us

And there’s a little spot where I

Let you in

Now it’s a vacant lot

Where your name never washes off

Cause I thought it’d be you

And me

Circling infinity

We leave our marks on things

That will never be ours

The streets are scarred

The trees are carved

With names that glow like

Diamond rings on one knee

In a nice restaurant

I’m better now

Those dreams are gone