Take the Child

id like to move alone but the sun is down
I am a woman in the dark
id like to love you as you are
but the metaphor has kind of lost its spark

id like to touch you in a dream
but for the creasing seams in my fold up heart
id join you my love, but for the heat & my burning solitude

id like to move alone
but theres too much love to say
to the child the man & the mother & the woman walking away

id like to swing my arms around
to throw myself outside
but theres more than me to consider here
now I am no only child
theres you & me & the mother
& the man from before
more than me to cradle here
more shame to rock away
more faith to restore

id like to move alone...

take the child
take the love of man
its all the same
id like to think I can have it all
but my world cannot contain
the child the man & the mother
& the man from before

mid 8
were slipping with time
ill give into gravity
or live in a lie
my heart is a barren cavity
i guess this is good bye
i guess this is goodbye

id like to move alone but the sun is down...