i hear your voice and the world goes away
i see your face and this place is okay
oh, for just a moment of your time
oh, now that'd be sublime

do you hear me?
i'm here for you
you don't see me
i'm way in the back of the ballroom
i've been here since last night at nine
i was the first in the line

you made me cry more than anyone i've ever met in my whole life
you made me smile despite myself
i live for you, i wouldn't lie
you made me love you more than i love myself

corner cafe, random meeting
is that really you there?
scrape me off the ceiling
i've waited my whole life for this day
now i don't know what to say

you are the sea and the sky
and i'm content to not know why
you are so great, i am so plain
i am that moth to your flame
wish i was good enough for you


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    Not quite, Maddendog, it isn;t referring to a stalker. Ironically Voltaire has one very special stalker who goes to most of his cocnerts and sometimes voltaire likes to sing to him. Anyhow, the song is spoken somwaht along these lines because it is referring to someone who loves someone else but knows that they are never good enough for them, because of their past and what it has made them as well as because they see the one they love as the greatest of people. They love them and shall nevev love any other and when they are finally faced with the chance to speak to them they freeze and can't tell them how they feel.

    The-Dullahanon April 30, 2007   Link

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