Vertigo

vertigo as soft as skin when everything stops and it starts again

please let it go i can taste her heart against my lips

the signal fades and we count it down to the sound of a word that she's never known

vertigo brittle hearts so tight they crack like glass

she waits for it, it's all that she has

along a wire across the sky

a room with a view and a soft prayer for light

through the midnight hour streets that have no names carry me home

and we find ourselves with the hearts of thieves while she whispers like angels with blood on her teeth

i fall down again and i learn to love to need

she waits for it, it's all that she has

i pray for sleep to fall that's all that i need

and here i lay in soft and still as shadows crawl across the room

all while she sleeps in soft and still as seconds fade

vertigo it starts again with the darkest of rooms and the softest of skin

please let it go i'm halfway home by now but in my head

and i somehow fail to find her lips as this sick game we play takes a familiar twist

and the beauty is: signals i once loved i left for this.