Part 1

just as we had started
things fell apart as they typically do
i won't say i miss you or the lion
i won't say i miss you or the lion
as he roars away
without a turn - to see
what he'd left behind
and you've just become a slave
to pride.

Part 2

i don't put my reclusiveness on you
i had these dreams long before i ever knew
the truth is that for years i've tried to hide.
but i would go to meet you on the outside
yes, i would go to meet you on the outside

cause you
brought me back
you
brought me back
but to you,
it was a curse
and a sad little waste of hours..

i hate to grovel in my song, but thats what i do,
the truth is
that's the only thing that's left of you.

my world is for you
my world is for you

Part 3

let me open up this door for you
and explore this tiny world with you
for as long as our eyes meet
on some random park street
allow me to demonstrate virtue
by not saying a word to you
and we'll both avoid tangles
and the heartbreak and minds that we mangle

and we'll just be the dream stuff
that never gets messed up
and though you'll probably forget me
you'll never regret me

and if we just stay strangers passing
there won't ever be that sticky everlasting
or the trials that go right with it
and i won't ever have to be unforgiven by anyone
and i can be...
just a breeze...
and aim to please...

i could tell you that i'm different
and that i loved you when i saw you
i could tell you that i meant it.
i could tell you that we're destined
and when we met it was all planned out in the heavens
but when you'd leave i'd be forgotten
just dropped down by a tree
and left there to be rotten
another soulless definition
of a human that forgot
that life is all a competition.

and if we just stay strangers passing
i won't have to remember how you looked when you were laughing
or how glassy your eyes got when you were drinking
and how far away they stared when you were thinking....