| I tried to save a girl I truly loved
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| And didn’t quite know how to help her
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| So now she’s sleeping as her parents up above
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| Cry over things that they can’t tell her
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| And when I did my good deed
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| I thought I’d feel unbroken gladness
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| But standing in the street alone
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| I just felt sinking sadness
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| Girl, your dad will not us bless
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| So hang up your veil and dress
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| Look at me and take one guess
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| Where this best-intentioned love will lead us
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| I once felt a feeling fully through
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| Though I knew I shouldn’t feel it
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| Because to act on it I’d be a person
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| Who should be slapped into a straitjacket
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| So every time it comes around
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| I just let it die inside me
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| You said, «I only come around
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| Because I just need you to hide me»
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| So we knelt in those dead weeds
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| Sticks and sharp rocks cutting into our knees
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| And I thought that we would freeze
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| But there was just too much warm blood in our bodies
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| I’m not going to make you take the pills
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| Though you should really think about it
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| The fire by which we both were almost killed
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| Glowed so beautiful, don’t doubt it
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| But we have to make a choice now
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| Can we glow without it?
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| There’s a space I tried to fill
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| But I’m seeing now I never will
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| You fly around while I stand still
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| Until I slowly just get smaller and smaller
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| I tried to save a girl I truly loved
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| And I never would desert her
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| But we both found out that I was dreaming
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| Of the day I thoroughly could hurt her
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| And I saw myself inside her eyes
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| This shrinking would-be savior
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| Resented her for never needing help
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| And couldn’t wait just to betray her
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| So we drove back to her place
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| From the temporary home that we had made
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| And I stepped back into the street
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| Feeling the fullest moment of my life
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| Slowly shrink away from me
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| With my good deed |