Save Me

Told her it was me Open and ugly Gave her the shovel Hoped that she dug me Now there's six feet of Scorched earth above me Drowning out thunder's Torturous drumbeats I'm not through with love but it's through with me 'Cause you were you and who was I To try to redo or undermine your true design? My cruel mind ruined by a fruitless feeling Reading into each new concealed hint Mistook a crooked look for sweet inducement Consumed with loosening the noose that you fixed Sending my troops to duke it out with toothpicks Find the spool of misguided pride reeling Until the credits roll on this whole foolish scene And that's it - not even good while it lasted Old-fashioned one-sided unrequited attraction Tires spinning while I'm in it bracing for crashing Second chances vanish as Armageddon advances Save the last rain dance to command romantic enchantments So it goes from elated to deflated Bitter sweet tasting, but better cause we made it A spark begins flaming, burns out, then cremated And darkness seems favorable to star gazing No medicine to jettison the deft reminders left behind Sentimental sediment set in the sacramental wine And I said to her Save me Save me Save me And she said to me Were you too good to be true? Or was I not good enough for you? Tryna get this weight off the top of me I'm going down And there's no way that you're stopping me Save me Lord knows I haven't seen you in months now Your sax blows but I only hear one sound Dumbfounded but not done drowning Thumbing my nose at undertows surrounding Was it love or infatuation? I summon patience while succumbing vacantly To numbing agents administered to dull This patient's sinister pulsating hatred In the end, I'm not sure you were a friend to me Do the things you have to do but don't do them in front of me It's gonna be a long road - turn the keys and gun it 'Til we plummet from the summit and my knees are in my stomach Cruise control - bruised and holed up, frail in a room alone A tale of a student who failed to intuit The basic truths of Eros and Cupid My last token in the slots of hope can Disabuse me of the notion we're reduced to folding In a cold world where an ace loses To a girl holding a pair of deuces 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 You think I don't laugh, oh Do things I can like, so Why are we losing time? I don't want to get up, oh Bring me what I need, so Why are we losing time? It's like I've seen the light But you have never known Save me