Met you in the aftermath of the great war
when I had nothing left to fight for
Face covered in mud, bodies scattered on the floor
It was a god damn horror scene; I dared not open up the door
You spoke to me like poetry and opened up your soul
You loved me in hyperbole and kept me from the cold
You held my heart in your hands as if it was your own
And from the start you were the man I’d always wanted to know
You knew me as if we’d been reading the same book
written in a secret language only we understood
You saw in me things I’d always wanted to be true
like you were in my mind all along, watching the same view
You treated me like we were already on a team
Like we’d been in cahoots for a half a century
You spoke the language of love like you knew what it was for
You loved the broken bits of me; I loved you even more
But I was in no condition to fall head over high heels
So I fell into your brown eyes and fell out of something else
I was stuck in fight or flight when you told me how you felt
So I froze the ground under you; the ground on which you knelt
I was not here to fool you, but I could not trust my heart
‘Cause the last time that I did, my whole wide world just fell apart
“You never let me hold you”, is what you said
while I held myself together; while I held on by a thread
My wings were broken, but you wanted me to fly
My baggage was crushing, but you wanted me to smile
I was burnt out, and used up, and barely survived
and all I could do was slowly move towards your light
My hands were bleeding, but you wanted me to fight
for that love behind your eyes that had brought me back to life
the love I wanted to believe in, but I was so scared of you leaving
one girl’s heart can only take so much grieving
So I watched you never look back as you slowly sailed away
never to darken my door again, ‘cause you had nothing left to say
And you’ll just live inside my heart in a corner I’ll always hide away
and be the first thing I look for in another life someday
The great war
