Making them closer than they were before And keeping a permanently open door Show them your surgically-open heart To be sure they won't be seeking more Losing their hand has made you hard to please Retaining the past a terminal disease It's like an exilherating sorrow You can touch it, it's so near It's so far gone by tomorrow An anticipated fear Walking alone under a cloud of loss And wearing rejection like a painted cross Staring at streets that make you stop and yearn For the love you nonchalantly tossed Can I hope to step into their shoes? Have they left enough for you to lose? Surely the words that made your memories burn Will eliminate the unpaid dues And I'm breathless with dejection Aggravated to unwind The lessons and attention Lost the will to fight You smother me with your sadness I surf in your open mind Threaten me with your weakness And kiss me to be unkind Slaying me in slow-motion And leaving the love behind You're crying an entire ocean And kissing to be unkind You smother me with your sadness I surf in your open mind Threaten me with your weakness And kiss me to be unkind Slaying me in slow-motion And leaving the love behind You're crying an entire ocean And kissing to be unkind (Kissing to be unkind) Kissing to be unkind (Kissing to be unkind) Kissing to be unkind You're withholding what you're giving And you're choking just to breathe Embracing to forsake them And arriving just to leave