The Terrible Secret - Emery

Pave these streets with open arms

It’s always you we have waited on

The skin, the taste, the drug, the need

I am asking, telling you, don’t leave

Erase the lines that we have drawn

It’s always you we have waited on and waited on and on and on

These are our words that fill these mouths

But all the letters of the alphabet could never spell it out

These palms and frames that we tear through

To cling to something that is bigger than the failed attempts at you

Wait, wait, wait

I don’t want to see

Wait, wait, wait

I am not the person anyone would want to be

The perfect shoes with the matching clothes

It is the lie we are always told

But nothing masks the shallow touch

Like saying words that cost so much

While you are an addict to the need

To find yourself a way to breathe

The sex, the purge, the vein, the look

To replace the feelings that we have took

These are our words that fill these mouths

But all the letters of the alphabet could never spell it out

These palms and frames that we tear through

To cling to something that is bigger than the failed attempts at you

Perfection

It’s perfection

But never quite enough and never could disguise

The drugs to make it stay

The wanting in your eyes

The money that you spent

But you are still an accident

We are more than words that fill our mouths

Drink with eyes that tell us the answers that we need

These are our words that fill these mouths

But all the letters of the alphabet could never spell it out

These palms and frames that we tear through

To cling to something that is bigger than the failed attempts at you

Wait, wait, wait

I don’t want to see

Wait, wait, wait

I am not the person anyone would want to be

Waiting here 'til you leave