Jump off a building I'll take the fall
Like a bird in a cage
Flightless against the wall of your room
I've got nothing to prove
I'm an actor
Sunken eyes you're wrapping your hands
With a sinewy strand
The best that you can
But you're bleeding out
Falling down from your stance
You're a boxer
Tell me who clipped your wings
Placed you under that glass
Who quelled your fire
To make you so harmless
And tame like an animal locked in a cage
Who stole the once rosey glow from your face
10 miles high on a balcony you sit
Smoking your last cigarette of the evening
Choke on the ash while you look at the sky
The smoke dancing
All alone in a queen size bed
Did you fill the space that my body left
Are you happier now then you ever were then
You're a champion
Are you reborn
Did you find the light from before
Pull it out from my eye to take what's yours
Did you find some holy retribution
At my expense
Are you the lucky one
Left holding the gun
After its said and done
Are you absolved of all fault
Far above it all
Such sagely wisdom so devout
Is that what you call love
Or close as it gets
To use everyone up until they've got nothing to give
You say you want love
That's not what you'll get
You get something that's tolerable
And then you live with it