we've spent a lifetime apart so i keep a record in my heart of all the waiting in the wings i've done a wretched little tale i've spun because its everyday i'm waiting for more a message from the opposite shore some coded beeps that i can never unwind and i'm not even sure that you mind it's a repetition every day just waiting on the words to say god i'm desperate to hear your voice i wish i even had a damn choice cause when i stare across the gap between our hearts I WANNA MEET YOU IN THE MIDDLE i wanna meet you in the middle baby do you know what you wanna hear? 'cause you can say the word, make it all so clear or you can sit around, watch it disappear (watch the truth, it breaks in two) but you don't even know what you wanna say it only takes an instant to slip away but if you grab a hold, make a grand escape (one to two, just me and you) singing dream together, we can dream together we can fantasize about the fairer weather if we stay together, we can stay together hold each other closer like we're birds of a feather dream together, we can dream together baby, ain't nobody gonna live forever so we stay together, we should stay together hold each other closer like we're birds of a feather i've been wanting for a shot that's sharp so i paint a target on my heart hoping bow and arrow strikes me true so i can throw it back to you but baby aim is all i got to show an imitation cupid's bow and i'm a fool without a firing zone i just don't want to be alone now i'm walking 'round the corner again but i don't want the story to end god i'm desperately falling so far i'll fall until it breaks my heart and though i'm staring out the hole between my lungs I WANNA CLOSE IT JUST A LITTLE so can we close it just a little baby do you know what you wanna hear? 'cause you can say the word, make it all so clear or you can sit around, watch it disappear (watch the truth, it breaks in two) but you don't even know what you wanna say you'll wait until your life starts to slip away but if you grab a hold, let the message play (one to two, just me and you) singing dream together, we can dream together we can fantasize about the fairer weather if we stay together, we can stay together hold each other closer like we're birds of a feather dream together, we can dream together baby, ain't nobody gonna live forever so we stay together, we should stay together hold each other closer like we're birds of a feather but when i stare across the gap between the sprawl and all the little things the borders break and fall away to order from the disarray i understand what i should know i knock an arrow on my bow and fire across the evermore i shoot to hit the grand restore and fall at last to land between your arms I THINK I LOVE YOU JUST A LITTLE or maybe more than just a little!

i spend my hours doing alchemy i mix my yellows and my blues to make a shade of green prosaic practice of depravity suspending innocents above their disbelief i wish that i could paint a pretty picture onto everything and leave a mark upon the world that felt like anything but maybe that's the essence of an artist and their legacy just chasing down a sense of infamy put brush to canvas with a pirouette a simple motion makes the consequence intricate all the little nothings and my parapet i hope its something that you don't forget cadmium red is the ground beneath cadmium orange everything i see cadmium yellow is the air i breathe cadmium colors painted inside me i can make autumn from a single leaf steal a fine picture like a first class thief make the water work like you won't believe find a new world that can set you free how could anybody ever live like me? i spend my hours doing alchemy i make a life producing zinc inside the smeltery its not exactly where i want to be but wanting doesn't matter when there's mouths to feed i wish that i could paint a pretty picture of a fantasy and turn a feeling to a living for my family instead i make the metals in the pigments in my reverie and maybe that can be enough for me oh, isn't it funny facing destiny? its like a knife inside twisting my arteries god, i want for nothing but identity i think that something might be wrong with me cadmium red is the ground beneath cadmium orange everything i see cadmium yellow is the air i breathe cadmium colors painted inside me antegrade fever, 101 degrees shatter my body with a gentle breeze dammit i am real and i have my dreams watch me burn brighter til i fail to breathe how could anybody ever live like me? (baby do you know what it's like to die) (to watch the sparkle fade from inside your eye) I can't remember what it's like to feel autonomy can't even feel it in the moments that you left to me (i don't wanna leave with a work undone) (the paint can barely dry 'fore it fills my lungs) i kept a bullet in the chamber, taunting me but i don't wanna feel it coming out of me i don't want- i spend my hours doing alchemy i mix my yellows and my blues to make a shade of green chasing impossible philosophy and hoping that this poison ain't the death of me cadmium red is the ground beneath cadmium orange everything i see cadmium yellow is the air i breathe cadmium colors painted inside me i can make autumn from a single leaf steal a fine picture like a first class thief make the water work like you won't believe find a new world that can set you free how could anybody ever live like- (baby do you know what you wanna hear?) ('cause you can say the word, make it all so clear) we're all just searching for a sense of solidarity to hold each other close and confiscate our destiny (no one wants to leave with a work undone) (we only need a brush we can pass along) i kept a bullet in the chamber for a rainy day but whats the point in planning for it anyway? i've got too many colors for a shade of grey and i can make it autumn every single day

to spend a moment at your beck and call oh, i would give my world to you i live my life in simple repetition but i would start again if it did you right oh, i spend my days my fists against this wall but not a single sound seems to make it through count on my fingers all the grand admissions and i can't make it through a single time all i wanna do is to do you right i wish that i could climb to the greatest heights all the world beneath me when i meet your eye i wish that i could fall a little bit harder i wish that i could fall like it would even matter i wish that i could fall right into your life but im not there at all on the other side i wish that i could fall and hit the ground running i wish that i could fall instead of doing nothing i wish that i could fall right between your eyes but you just stand so tall im left out of sight i wish that i could fall somewhere it wont hurt awake uneasy when the morning calls oh, i would give my world to you i life my life in simple repetition but i can barely call what i live my life all i wanna do is to do you right hold up two fingers, check my double vision beside myself again, beaten black and blue without a purpose, i'm an apparition but i could be your sword, you could hold me tight all i wanna do is to do you right i wish that i could fly with these broken wings if it was meant for you, i'd do anything i wish that i could fall a little bit harder i wish that i could fall like it would even matter i wish that i could fall right into your life but im not there at all on the other side i wish that i could fall and see the sky clearly i wish that i could fall not miss the ground completely i wish that i could fall somewhere close to you but i don't land at all drifting out of view i wish that i could fall but only truly backwards right into your arms a fire lit within my chest my heart's been burning, wholly dispossessed (these barely-blinking eyes that refuse to cry) oh, what i wouldn't give to stay to have my joy and sorrow cast away but even if my wings have been set alight all that i can do is to learn to fly all i wanna do is to do you right i wish that i could fall a little bit harder i wish that i could fall like it would even matter i wish that i could fall right into your life but im not there at all on the other side i wish that i could fall and hit the ground running i wish that i could fall instead of doing nothing i wish that i could fall right between your eyes but you just stand so tall im left out of sight i wish that i could fall but only truly backwards right into your arms your arms your arms!