1. VENUS AND BACHUS

(person 1):
'Close my eyes
Pull my heart strings
Pour my tears from your hands
'Connections are never easy,' you said
Empty words
Empty soul
I believe that we are afraid of one another'
(person 2):
'And I, I believe that you have died within me'
...I fade from myself
I miss you again
I fade from myself
I miss you again...again
(what have we got?)
Bloody broken and hidden away
I seek the rope from which we will hang
Or so it seems
Or so it seems
The dance of flesh on flesh has rendered us blind
(person 1):
'I look into eyes, I look into stone
It's better to be stepped on than left all alone...
So now I choke on yesterday when I was someone
And I wonder where 'forever' went
And how our 'everything' came undone
I opened my eyes and the heaven beneath us died.'


2. ONE DYING WISH

Because it cuts so deep to see myself wishing upon melting stars
I cut the cord I finally give in...
Beyond visions of wretched smiles
And the dread that they've befriended
I have seen an end to you and I
(when did 'we' begin)
And a warped sense of being that I embrace must exist
And we with whole hearts yet broken words
We dream of wisdom but I yearn only for you
You will destroy me with words that you have never spoken...
I've drawn a picture of us twisted within
Yet below this world I absorb life from portraits
As long as we remain abreast of one another we will never meet each other
As long as we whisper to one another we will never fully hear each other
As long as my eyelids are weighed down by desire and one dying wish
I will never know when you appear