Left Alone For Loneliness

Dwarfed by disuse and drip-dried by dismay

Moonstruck from the courtship and clutches of the day

Merged in a lofty calm, turned cold, callous clay

Careening the edges between love and hate

Give me, I pray, the pledge you demand

Or to be left alone for loneliness

A pulse of waves hits, then aches, swallows up, and ebbs away

Twin winds turn twin wakes, a collar of rocks that they break

Hidden under flowers, between the ridges and the rain

Lies a pale pink jaw, shuttering, persuaded toward the pain

And I tried and I tried to wish you away

And I tried and I tried, and I will succeed someday

Yeah

Give me, I pray, the pledge that you demand

Or to be left alone for loneliness

And I walk past the room where you once wept

It was a good place to wallow

Sometimes a taste of your own medicine

Is the toughest pill to swallow

Is the toughest pill to swallow

The toughest pill to swallow