Let Me Go

One last time

I tell myself every time

But always return to the scene of the crime

Just like a ghost to the place where they died

Cause you make me yearn to be refused

You intimate hope for a life you won't choose

Keep me around just keep you amused

Won't you please cut me loose?

I'm bleeding out slowly

But you keep me alive

I'm pleading for mercy

But you won't let me die

If you're not in love with me

Just tell me so

And stop reeling me in

And then letting me go

It can't be the chase you love cause I've never run

It can't be a game cause you've already won

I feel like a dog at the races

Who futilely chases what's endlessly just out of reach

You make me yearn to be abused

You suture me up just to open new wounds

And how is it I'm neither numb nor immune?

And why when you call can I never refuse?

I'm bleeding out slowly

But you keep me alive

I'm pleading for mercy

But you won't let me die

If you're not in love with me

Just tell me so

And stop reeling me in

And then letting me go

Why don’t you love me the way that I do?

Why don’t you need me the way I need you?

How many years have I wasted, hoping you’ll change when

You never will

You never will

You never will, forever you’re just

Reeling me in, reeling me in

And letting me go

You steal the life from me

Shake all that I believe

But I can’t leave you no,

I’ll always need you so

I love you more than words

It’s more than you deserve

You’re stringing me along

Like grabbing onto fog

But all I catch is mist

What little of you sticks

Then you dry up and you’re gone,

And I’m again alone

And on and on it goes

Forever it unfolds

We’re fated I suppose

To always play these roles