Keep Me - SHeDAISY

This can’t really be what life is all about

Learning how to live Just to live without

The travesty’s the irony and the irony is you

I’ve traded in my sanctity for a cheaper shade of blue

And as I surrender to this sunken bed

So afflicted by the tenant in my head

Even now I wonder how you lay her down to sleep

When secretly I know it’s my soul that you pray to keep

But will you really keep me

(Keep me)

On your porch, on your tongue

Beating in your chest, or coming undone

Folded neatly in the cover of your favorite book

(Keep me)

At a distance, in your maze

Fumbling through a contemplative haze (keep me)

Or tucked away clandestinely where no one else will look

Where my broken sky reaches to your velvet sea

Will you keep me

Drowning in the bottom of this empty glass

I pray god is good and that this too shall pass

Then from the abyss maybe I’ll find a sweet reprieve

When the echo of your kiss reminds me to believe

That you’ll always keep me

(Keep me)

Under god, or on your wall

Behind closed doors forever after all

Or headed south on the blacktop ribbon we designed

(Keep me)

The mantle of integrity, investing in

Something I’ll never see (keep me)

At 30,000 feet or in the windows of your mind

In a corner of your heart under lock and key

Will you keep me

Keep me (page 2)

Bridge:

Traipsing on hallowed ground

Has brought a lifelong sentence

Now living without your breath to fill

My lungs will be my penance

And even as I feel I hope you feel it Just as deeply

And even though you’ve let me go, say you’ll always keep me

Say you’ll always keep me

The melody you miscontrue

On the ocean crashing into you

Or waiting for the man you’ll never

Have the heart to be

In the fervent strains of the tragic elegy

Will you keep me

Will you keep me

Will you keep me