One More Thing Than I Can Handle - Jason Robert Brown, Kate McGarry

Between the look and the look away

I saw paragraph on paragraph of wanting

Written in the space around your eyes

And the corners of your smile

Between the look and the look away

I heard louder than the bells of a cathedral

Everything you wish that you could ask

If we only were alone

If we only could be sure that your wife would never know

But that’s one more thing than I can handle

One more cross than I can bear

God, you’re beautiful

God, it would be easy to say yes

But that’s one more thing than I can handle

It’s one more way I mustn’t care

Take me like a photograph

Put me in a drawer beside your fantasies

And leave me there

Leave me there

Between the look and the look returned

I made hundreds of frenetic calculations

Measuring the distance to my dream

The light inside the bar

The force beneath your arms

What I’d say if we got caught

But that’s one more thing than I can handle

It’s more choice that isn’t fair

God, you’re beautiful

God, it would be nice to aquiesce

If only, if only it weren’t one more thing than I can handle

It’s one more never answered prayer

Close me like a bank account

Drop me at the bottom of your memories

And leave me there

Leave me empty, leave me dry

Leave me hanging on a branch to rot

You might be strong enough, you might be strong enough

But I’m not

I’m not

It’s just one more thing than I can handle

One more cross than I can bear

God, you’re beautiful

God, it would be easy to say

If only, if only, if only

If only it weren’t one more thing than I can handle

One more castle in the air

Hide me like an accident, watch me walk away

Light me in the window of your couldhavebeens

And leave me there

Leave me there

You’re just one more thing

You’re just one more thing

Just one more thing than I can handle

One more thing, one more thing

One more thing than I can handle