Dinner made,
Attempt to understand
Come back to the same old thing
Any fight leads back to the beginning
Where time froze a heart in place

The wall comes up
And the defenses swing low
There’s a pillow and a wince
Echoes of empty silence
And blank stares
Heartfelt kisses that lead to nowhere
A look that says I don’t care to talk about this

Just be another head case
Don’t you want your rebate
Can’t negotiate reality
With what the past dug up
With what the present throws down
With what is only on one side to understand

Perfect circles under your eyes
Don’t see why try, but it happens
Put behind an issue in the line of fire
It’s just a Bang-Bang, baby shot down
But she’s nobody’s baby anymore
Because
She’s not
Someone else
Getting too close to the surface
That represented another life gone by in haste
Communication falters in the break

You can’t move forward
If you keep looking back
You can’t learn to trust
If you don’t know your own heart
When distance and space tell a tale
Of wanting to find something different
Even if it’s your own balance without interdependence

Nothing to help that
Instead its Bang-Bang baby, Stick 'em up
This is a heartfelt heist
Of how love shot down something
Of being more than an attempt at self perfection
But what does she know...