Friends all stand in front of me...
Laughing, joking carelessly...
I hide my arms so they can't see...
What it is I've done to me...
And though I try to hang around...
They often leave me feeling lost...
What will it take just to be found?
How much more will my joy cost..?
('Cause I don't live, I just survive)
(Among the crowd, I'm ostracized)
(I can not be indemnified)
(I fell too hard, I broke this time)
My parents always yell at me...
Like I won't get it unless they scream...
But I never do know what they mean...
Why do they have to smother me?!
I've got my back pressed to the fences...
I'm sorry that I'm such a hinderance
With one glace at you
I smile.
My heart taps in and out of time so slowly
Dropping a beat to our affairs.
You brush my hand and my mind snaps a photograph
Of our laughter as you perform some silly act
Like you always did.
A black and white Polorode.
I'm still uncertain of the colors.
I stash our memory away for good
I don't want to look at it
Although I know it is beautiful.
It's in our album for as long as I can remember it's there for
Though it stains my brain like espresso to a table cloth.
I find ways to bleach them out.
As I always do.
Now I lay here
Black and white myself.
Waiting to again tap out the beats our hearts