Everything You Ever Wanted

If you forget to dream when the lights go out

Feel the shock when you learn what it’s really all about

The fear of dying alone

The walls of your soul are closing in

You enter the casino where you never win

It becomes

Your only way back home

I’ll be

Everything you ever wanted

The soft and juicy meat

From the bones of the beast you hunted

I’ll be words you’ve always longed to hear

So much more than just a souvenir

I’ll be

Everything you thought you wanted

The last ripe apple had fallen from the tree

I was on sale when you found me

In the megamall that had shuttered so long ago

Lived a long life of blazing trails

Gave it all up for a lost weekend of betrayals

And now you need somewhere to go

I’ll be everything you ever wanted

I’ll be the winning run from

Every squeeze play that you bunted

The security blanket when you’re afraid

The sweet and the sour in your lemonade

I’ll be everything you thought you wanted

And all your witticisms

Go up in smoke

And it feels like a joke

And it feels like being drained

And only the heebie jeebies and the fear remains

I’ll be everything you ever wanted

The richly deserved reward

From every marker that you fronted

The crackling fire when you’re in from the cold

The form made flesh of every lie you’ve been told

I’ll be everything you thought you wanted