Human Performance

I know exactly where I was
when I first saw you.
The way I see you now,
through these eyes waiting to retry.
Those pristine days, I recall so fondly.
So few are trials when a life isn't lonely,
and now if only.
I'd never felt it, I'd never heard it.
I know I loved you. Did I even deserve it?
When you returned it. There's no suspicion,
no hesitation, believing through the
eyes of sure adoration.
CHORUS
Witness and know
Fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire blink unrehearsed
Shields like a house closing it's doors
Curved in the dark
Rinses of yours
CHORUS
Ashtray is crowded, bottle is empty
no music plays and nothing moves with-
out drifting into a memory. Busy
apartment, no room for grieving.
Sink full of dishes and no trouble
believing that you are leaving.
Mid-sentence tremors. Mind at its
weakest. One way of shaking off
the thoughts that it sleeps with.
CHORUS
In walks the darkness I pitch
without you. Asks me do I realise what
I'd done and who I'd done to. Indeed
I do know. It never leaves me, just
visits less often. It isn't gone and
I won't feel its grip soften without
a coffin. Breathing beside me, feel-
ing its warmness, phantom affect-
ion gives a human performance.