We Were Bound (To Bend the Rules)

Half-full loses weight once you taste itSo for now my empty glass must mean I've chased itBut I'm not wasted and I'll not waste itThe dealer laced it with a new decree of our separationHow many have you taken?And I could run off at the mouthFor hours on end, like I'd gone senselessBut I'm just speechlessRendered me defenselessBarred from your presence, my name from present-tensesAnd yes, I've sensed thisSince early AugustI'm not dense and it's obvious that you're more than just friendsBut I'm not against thisI'll remove our fencesAnd just hide in these sentencing sentencesTill things can start making senseIt's a roseate opiate ruse of roguish rougeThat brings back my black and bruised bluesThe sea, our torpid frames pale upon the beachEntwined in love's sands, between those sheetsRememberI mean, really think back nowTo the very last time you were happyAnd yeah, I know, got the job, got the familyGot no free time, and still they'll take what's leftNow we're running on empty but I know we can make itCan't turn aroundAnd we can't change our destinationBut when our transmission endsThey'll rescue usAnd we'll start from where we landIt's roseate opiate ruse of roguish rougeThat brings back my black and bruised bluesYou can't rob the coppery tide of her cherry-ish huesThe shores of these sheets recant refuseForget about the wedding rings we loseOnly greater love will see us throughIt don't matter now how long we've played the foolsWe both know we were bound to bend the rulesYou should know by now, we never loseNo never, neverYou can mock the malleable calms of ancient ruleForever and everOr forgive them for they know not what they doWhatever, whateverSo Rosemary's baby to sing the truthFor worse or for betterNow, the idiosyncrasy when they serve the savantsAnd the mouth of the iris learns to let the light inMay the end of our times make way for the rules that we bendTimes are always changing, but life never ends