I need space

I need a place to dissociate

Before my feelings wrap around me

And it's too late

You're on my mind

All of the time

But I'm out of mine

So I can't be too close to you

Is there a place

Where I can maintain my double face?

Kickin' in the basement, wasted

Stickin' on the pavement

I need space

And I know that we've been talking about it for time

Know that it'll all be fine

But I don't just wanna sit on the sidelines

While the ones that I love are unkind

And I'll wake

And I'll wake and waste away

Maybe if I make it, fake it

Maybe I can take it

I need space

And I know that we've been talking about it for time

Talking 'bout it in my mind

But I know that I'd be feeling alright now

But I know that I'll make it in life

And I want to know what it's like to be on the other side of me

So I can see what the tide is like to swim on without that greater need

And I shouldn't mind cos I want you to see my kind of scene

And it seems obscene that I see two sides of me when I get too deep

I know that

I'm trying to talk

About the things that I

See inside my mind

In time

When I'm alright

...

But I don't think I'll lie