Keep Me

This can't really be what life is all aboutLearning how to live Just to live withoutThe travesty's the irony and the irony is youI've traded in my sanctity for a cheaper shade of blueAnd as I surrender to this sunken bedSo afflicted by the tenant in my headEven now I wonder how you lay her down to sleepWhen secretly I know it's my soul that you pray to keepBut will you really keep meChorus:(Keep me)On your porch, on your tongueBeating in your chest, or coming undoneFolded neatly in the cover of your favorite book(Keep me)At a distance, in your mazeFumbling through a contemplative haze (keep me)Or tucked away clandestinely where no one else will lookWhere my broken sky reaches to your velvet seaWill you keep meDrowning in the bottom of this empty glassI pray god is good and that this too shall passThen from the abyss maybe I'll find a sweet reprieveWhen the echo of your kiss reminds me to believeThat you'll always keep meChorus:(Keep me)Under god, or on your wallBehind closed doors forever after allOr headed south on the blacktop ribbon we designed(Keep me)The mantle of integrity, investing inSomething I'll never see (keep me)At 30,000 feet or in the windows of your mindIn a corner of your heart under lock and keyWill you keep meKeep me (page 2)Bridge:Traipsing on hallowed groundHas brought a lifelong sentenceNow living without your breath to fillMy lungs will be my penanceAnd even as I feel I hope you feel it Just as deeplyAnd even though you've let me go, say you'll always keep meSay you'll always keep mechorus:The melody you miscontrueOn the ocean crashing into youOr waiting for the man you'll neverHave the heart to beIn the fervent strains of the tragic elegyWill you keep meWill you keep meWill you keep me