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 sore adoration

Witness and know, fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire blink unrehearsed
Shield like a house closing it's doors
Curved in the dark rinses of yours

Ashtray is crowded, bottle is empty. No music plays and nothing moves without 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 it's weakest. One way of shaking off the thoughts that it sleeps with.

Witness and know, fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire blink unrehearsed
Shield like a house closing it's doors
Curved in the dark rinses of yours

In walks the darkness I pitch without you.
Asks me; "Do I realize 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 it's grip soften without a coffin.
Breathing beside me, feeling it's warmness, phantom affection gives a human performance.

Witness and know, fracture and hurt
Eyes in the fire blink unrehearsed
Shield like a house closing it's doors
Curved in the dark rinses of yours