Middleground

I loved you long, I loved you hard

I loved you more than I thought I could

Then you went away

I loved you more with every breath

You only gave me second best

I loved you anyway

Why did you have to run so hard?

Why did you have to go so far?

I guess I knew you would

You always said that you would go

I thought that if I could just do you better

You would stay

You just walk away

You're only good at leaving

And I can only stay

There's nowhere to meet in the middle

If you keep on walking away

It's getting dark when I turn on the light

And everyone's smiling when they fight

It's not just you

It's harder and harder to ignore

We're always at some awful war

With someone somewhere

But how could something that feels this good

Bring so much pain in this world

As anyone anywhere

You don't have to be told to know

That what we're doing is absurd

We do it anyway

We do it anyway

You're only good at fighting

And I refuse to run

There's nowhere to meet in the middle

If you won't drop your gun

Well justice may have once been blind

But now she can see, she just lost her mind

So we put her away

I know you're trying to even the score

But every time you just do worse

Than before

Your freedom is ripe but you pay the price

For plucking the fruit from the tree

Go as eve

Or better yet, you could leave it there

Until it sails down through the air

To rot on the ground

Never to be found

Freedoms such an ugly thing

And we're faced with awful choices

But why is it always the worst of both worlds

When we combine our voices