Ribs

Can I hold your love between my ribs
While you weigh me down to something thin?
When I get back up feeble and frail
Then I won't see you as the same again
You were oh-so quiet when I needed you
Was clamoring for something true

Now I, if I close my eyes, I can feel you
Vanish into blinding light to what I can't recognize
Now I splinter and divide, but go on breathing
Leave me to my own device, time was all I'd need to see it

Before I quit, I go to vent
But sorrow draws lines across my chest
Pale in my lips, my chin's so high it broke my neck
And I can never see you as the same again
I bear the shadow of my mind, I sink into the scene to hide
All the color is a mess, is there a means? Is there and end to this?

Oh, I, If I close my eyes, I can feel you
Vanish into blinding light to what I can't recognize
Now I splinter and divide, but go on breathing
Leave me to my own device, time was all I'd need to see it
You drift further by the day
You took a twist of a memory that we made
Ribbed with loneliness and shame
All to my own dismay

I, If I close my eyes I can feel you
Vanish into blinding light to what I can't recognize
Now I splinter and divide, but go on breathing
Leave me to my own device, time was all I'd need to see it