We both know I couldn't give you forever
I promise to not stay a day past December
but something about this wrinkle in time that we share
will be lost forever if I don't speak

I've tested your temper more than a few times
to see if you're dangerous as I think you might be
and you take it to mean I don't think of your feelings
but this from a man who doesn't miss much of anything,
I counted the days until you'd be back in the states

It's just that I hate things you say that we have in common
like the way that we sit, and our relationship drama
cause something is saying to say that this humming's a sign
you've gotten inside my head

maybe I say these things just cause I can
to see the tears in your eyes and your trembling hand
but equally likely, that somehow despite me
I'm not really sure what I feel
unless I feel it through you

I try to write by the light of a candle
I'm usually done when the flame burns away
but tonight it is steady and stronger than usual
which probably means there is something I need to say

you're using your scars as a form of protection
you might fool yourself but I don't do deception
'cause every move I make has been calculated
and you'd do the same if you'd lived to be hated
for something deeper than your skin

I wish I could say I could hold myself back
and stand behind these words as if they were fact
but hard knocks will leave hearts of glass with a crack
that leaves me unable to do anything desperate to keep you
like I think that I need to

so please won't you lay off your looks and your teasing
On top of now having your hooks into me and
you toy with a force that is stronger than reason
when you know you've got no plans
to let any of this grow

'cause you were a cut that was aimed at my soft spot,
you're all the things that make me weak at the knees
and the truth is to say that I'm not in love with you'd
be an untruth of the highest degree

and you say someone's waiting and he's over the sea
I can say it's OK
but I can't say it's nothing to me
'cause if I had been smarter
I'd let you know sooner I'd try so much harder
to be the one to lay me down for you

and one day you'll say that your love isn't lovely
it isn't true now 'cause your love is above me
I won't try to make you regret it
how could I when I'm so indebted
I just want you to know in the end
it was something to me