Talk

Driving up the mountain, ears popping as we climb

It can be risky after sundown when the roads turn serpentine

We run out of conversation, day runs out of light

Silent, watching high beams interrupt the night

Why can't we talk anymore?

We used to talk for hours

Do I make you nervous or bored?

Or did I drink you to the last drop?

Your body looming like a specter, hungry as a scythe

If you come reaping, I'll come running, I still know what you like

But just like they say, that you can never go home

I could not love you the same way two days in a row

Why can't we talk anymore?

We used to talk for hours

Do I make you nervous or bored?

Or did I drink you to the last drop?

Why was our best sex in hotels

And our worst fights in their stairwells?

I was by your side, eye to eye

When you thought you were living in a private hell

I didn't mean to start talking in the past tense

I guess I don't know what I think till I start talking