Vertigo

as soft as skin

when everything stops and it starts again

please let it go

I can taste her heart against my lips

the signal fades

and we count it down

to the sound of a word that she's never known

vertigo

brittle hearts so tight they crack like glass

she waits for it

it's all that she has

along a wire

across the sky

a room with a view and a soft prayer for light

through the midnight hour

streets that have no names carry me home

and we find ourselves

with the hearts of thieves

she whispers like angels with blood on her teeth

I fall down again

I learn to love to bleed

she waits for it

it's all that she has

and I pray for sleep to fall

that's all that I need

(and here I lay

in soft and still

as shadows crawl

across the room

all while she sleeps

in soft and still

as seconds fade)

vertigo

it starts again

with the darkest of rooms and the softest of skin

please let it go

i'm halfway home by now but in my head

and I somehow fail

to find her lips

as this sick game we play takes a familiar twist

and the beauty is

signals I once loved I left for this