breathless

"I want something
That's purer than the water
Like we were

It's not there now
Ineloquence and anger
Are all we have

Like Saturn's rings
An icy loop around me
Too hard to hold

Lash out first
At all the things we don't like
Or understand

The answer phone
The lonely sound of your voice
Frozen in time

I only need
The compass that you gave me
To guide me on


And it's beginning to get to me
That I know more of the stars and sea
Than I do of what's in your head
Barely touching in our cold bed
It's so thrilling but also wrong
You don't have to prove that you are so strong
'Cause I can carry you on my back
After our enemies attack


We need to feel breathless with love
And not collapse under its weight
I'm gasping for the air to fill
My lungs with everything I've lost"

Gary Lightbody