Make Believe

Let's play a game

Of make-believe

Turn out the lights and pretend

That you're the universe

And you carry just an ounce of empathy within you

Within you

Within you

Do you decide to abolish all that is and will ever be

Or do you just let everything unfold

In the terrible way that it has always been?

Or maybe, pretend to be my atmosphere

In which I breathe in noise and breathe out vulnerability

And maybe I'll make a mixtape out of

All the vibrations that reach me through you

And will put that on repeat till I

Finally fall asleep on my own

Finally fall asleep on my own

Let's pretend that we are the sides of a tesseract

Inside of which time finds a way to throw a fit of rage

Inside, you become a flame

And I'm a moth that feeds on self-blame

And no straight line path connects

The two of us

And as time finally decides to take a nap

We

We disappear into the backdrop

We disappear into the backdrop

We disappear into the backdrop

We disappear into the backdrop

Let's play a game

Of make-believe

Where you'll be a universe

And I'll be just me

Not what I've become

Within you

Within you

Within you

Within you