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What You Desire

Jump feet first into the shallow end
Will you stick with me until my bones mend?

I’ve been wand’ring restlessly
I think the world’s got the best of me

Can you see right through this fortitude
I built so tall to stay away from you

Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Willing you to just let go of her

Disrupt my life
No quietude
You’ve been on mind
What am I to you?

If you show me yours
I’ll show you mine

Love is on the table
Never on the line

What would happen if you give in
To the thought of us touching skin?
You’re so clean, so damn debonair
I’m the punk with a ghastly stare

If every conversation is a sermon
You can take me under, I deserve it
At your sacred mercy I would cower
Is my sacrilege what you desire?

Disrupt my life

No quietude
You’ve been on my mind
What am I to do?

You shield your eyes
So I shield mine
Love is on the table
Never on
The line

Clear-cut boundaries
Dancing in the quarry
Shedding all our clothes
So you can’t tell if we’re
Drowning

Sun-kissed skin
You’re glistening
I reach for you
With summer fading

One last kiss before it does us in
Lost inside Romeo’s reflection
You hold my hand
“Don’t let go”
We jump feet first into the shallow end

We jump feet first into the shallow end

May I live in infamy?
Put me back inside your dream
I can be written in your diary
I will never be just what you need
I heard what you said
I don’t get what you mean
I know it looks like you’re down on both knees
But I promise I whispered the truth
Cause love is on the table never on the line

And even with you on my mind
I know what it looks like
I know how it feels
To always live your life on the outside