I want your words
I want your names and your thoughts
Where are your whispers?
I feel they’re something that I’ve lost
You were never mine,
You’re a ghost but so long I’ve tried
I am so sick, my dear
I am so convinced that if I gave it time
You’d be by my side
My doubtful thoughts could just run and hide
Place those foggy hands
On my waist and make me sway
I’ll be your muse to paint
Make me sit and I’ll make you stay
You’d be the one I’d choose
If you really were the real thing
I am so sore, my love,
I am so certain that at the end of this fraying string
You are just waiting
I guess it&
I liked the winning, the losing too,
When I sat down and played a game with you
We set the board and played a match
You won my heart, babe, but now I have to ask
Since this all started, why doesn’t it end?
We play this game, love, a game nobody wins
Just shuffle your cards
You know I won’t go far
It’s not hard
To see what you are
You took my flag, so I made you my king
Out of all your pieces you said I was queen
But there’s another you’ve had more than me
I just don’t know which moves to believe
Doesn’t it seem strange that I’m lost again?
The rules you rewrite and a game nobody wins
You rol
I have spoken with Secret Words
I ought to be better proud of them
Yet they were a lover
Or a lover of lovers
Who once, I think—
Loved me
These—These Secret Words
I dislike their honest taste
Because they’re generous with regret
And bubbling with promise
With the things I refuse
To remind myself of
This Summer I had a lover
A man of boyish tastes
Who was no worse than the wisest child
Nor better than the most naïve man
And who wanted my skin
But not me
Has someone ever wanted your skin?
Just your skin?
Let me say—
It is a delight
And a regret
Like Secret Words
Which prefer to stay quiet
And who stayed quiet
For
I want your words
I want your names and your thoughts
Where are your whispers?
I feel they’re something that I’ve lost
You were never mine,
You’re a ghost but so long I’ve tried
I am so sick, my dear
I am so convinced that if I gave it time
You’d be by my side
My doubtful thoughts could just run and hide
Place those foggy hands
On my waist and make me sway
I’ll be your muse to paint
Make me sit and I’ll make you stay
You’d be the one I’d choose
If you really were the real thing
I am so sore, my love,
I am so certain that at the end of this fraying string
You are just waiting
I guess it&
I liked the winning, the losing too,
When I sat down and played a game with you
We set the board and played a match
You won my heart, babe, but now I have to ask
Since this all started, why doesn’t it end?
We play this game, love, a game nobody wins
Just shuffle your cards
You know I won’t go far
It’s not hard
To see what you are
You took my flag, so I made you my king
Out of all your pieces you said I was queen
But there’s another you’ve had more than me
I just don’t know which moves to believe
Doesn’t it seem strange that I’m lost again?
The rules you rewrite and a game nobody wins
You rol