Perilous Love - O'Brother

Take what you want

Leave me broken, leave me estranged

Just tear me apart

Still my devotion remains the same

I bit my tongue

For fear of igniting something I can’t tame

A perilous love

Will be my undoing, nothing will remain

What you want from me

Is my everything

What you want is a perfect endeavor

What I want can’t escape from me now

What you want from me

Is my everything

What you want is subconsciously clever

All I want are deliberate lies

I try to escape from my mind

But I’ve been tied with subliminal lines

I try, try to retain what is mine

And I just lie just to keep us alive

Set me aside

With a brazen integrity I can’t obtain

Leave my insides

Tangled in knots that I can’t rearrange

I bit my tongue

For fear of igniting something I can’t tame

A perilous love

Will be my undoing, nothing will remain

No time left to devote

Madness follows a slippery slippery slope

I try to escape from my mind

But I’ve been tied with subliminal lines

I try, try to retain what is mine

And I just lie just to keep us alive