Shy - Petal

How can it be you’ve loved me this long

When I’ve watched your eyes roll in a deep sleep?

And I can’t help but think of that line you always repeat

How «you can’t wait forever.»

And I know I’m shy, my act is strong

When you push the hair away from my neck

I can’t go on

It’s a funny thing, the way you look at me

Like I’m some sort of treasure of the past

And of what could be

I’ve seen the signs long ago

That you think I’ve stopped believing

It’s a terrible crime, the tablets broke

Commandments we carved out of stone turned to rubble

And I know I’m shy, my act is strong

When you read the words off the back of my hand

I can’t go on

It’s a funny thing, the way you look at me

Like I’m some sort of treasure of the past

And of what could be