By distant moon
Date: 2008 Aug 24
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The Waiting Game

In times when I'm just
a desperate heart attack
waiting
in the wings for the right moment
Christ Almighty, let me live
and I'm begging
for your hand again
but it's just an average attempt
and I'm pulling
more than my fair share
you've got your fingers in my hair
and I'm playing
right into your hand
and I don't mind
don't understand
anything.

Not even you.
No, not even you.

On days when
I'm barely alive again
in the devil's sights
and I'm shaking
like a leaf on a tree
this isn't anything like me
but you'll hold my hand
and I'll hold your heart
and we'll talk all night
and that's when it starts
to sink in...
that I don't understand
anything at all,
not even you
and not even me.
But why oh why am I so
anxious to see
what happens here?

It's like almost Christmas time
and the present's you and me
and the tag on the box says you'll
just have to wait and see.