Taking Your Lead

Will you love my old heart

When it ruins your floors

Bleeding out into hardwood

Cheating your new chores

Would you

To my body

To eat

To feed

If you knew

I was nothing

But the taking of your lead

Shouting it out from the top of my lungs

Sprouting it down from the roots of my tongue

Believing it now like I should have done

See the roots of my youth

See that it wasn't love

While you're breathing on my neck

Preoccupied with not breaking a sweat

Doesn't stop your mumbled breath

Doesn't stop what's coming next

Are you trying to make me cry

Got a speck stuck in my eye

Don't you say that I'm too high

Don't you say that, that I

Would you

To my body

To eat

To feed

If you knew

I was nothing

But the taking of

Shouting it out from the top of my lungs

Sprouting it down from the roots of my tongue

Believing it now like I should have done

See the roots of my youth

See that it wasn't love