Loose grip, and tight lipped Thinning your blood Begging Not sleeping Happy in love Coming over and apart Lonely, I look at you You're shaking and
You still think you've got it Is this the best idea that you've ever had? The living room, the furnace heat You pull your hair and gnash and weep Confess
pin prick You can fill me up but I'll only stay full for a while And wisdom's only shown me that my loneliness is all my fault And it's all my fault And
'm still gonna do it Just haven't quite figured out how yet We cornered Teddy Ruxpin and smashed his story tape And put Guns N'Roses in And watched him
Let the supplement slide down Everything is fine And my brain is cloudy, leveled out The pill dissolved It?s flushing out everything I care about and
can call me when you're bored I'll sing a song low Over the telephone In lower decibels so you can hear it and hear it and hear it and hear it And lost
To dull the shape And cut that hand that changed my name Polishing And my next words could be my last My clumsy mouth and the egg shells cracked And
again again It was us and you and him you you and him And each of us were golden Like sunset on my childhood curtains The beige and the brown and the
mumbling There used to be a time when you spoke to me with words I'm swearing up and down saying it's a commitment And toasting new beginnings saying
all your friends are standing by waving greedy goodbyes I've got nothing now that I want to say You wouldn't talk back anyway And you know we won't
up you should I?m disappointed, my vision blurs alone on the curb Eight weeks since and it?s still the same ?Something just came up, I?m so sorry? And
my room where I sleep to keep away bad dreams In my heart, I don?t know Loneliness takes up all that space So when I?m feeling low I?ll take out my check book and
and you're done talking Not to mention I've stopped breathing I'm such a mess I'm rushing to open your car door You lean and open mine before I can turn the key and
day alone since I met you And I haven't had a day alone since I met you And it's one eye on the banquet table The other on the door And everyone's got
to Out come the gaunt ghosts of your thoughts They're shrieking in prose and breathing rhymelessness archaic gloom Cover your mouth, sound trickles down and
drink will change your mind and Memories are for keeping Mostly leaving behind We remember alright We remember alright now A thousand memories and too much wine oh and oh and
chin, love Purged a poem I swore was finished Heaping lines half chewed unconscious Settle on a plot, chalk another loss Stage set for Breathing and choking on swallowed conversations Clutching and
tongue Let the supplement slide down Everything is fine And my brain is cloudy, leveled out The pill dissolved It?s flushing out everything I care about and