Elision

(album: Short Films - 2015)

Soften up the whites around your eyes dear
Am I building you up?
The elision of love

Touch you like a brush to a stone mirror
These visions are just
The elision of love

Tried my best to make you understand me
Do your lips stop moving
When I turn away?

Try to find a heart where both your hands meet
'Cause I'm falling deeper
With each cut I make

For you I chip away
And your body won't ever fade

Cast you as my masterpiece
A perfect work of symmetry
Something's missing
Now that I've
Made you for the world to see
An angel with such golden wings
I'll make you glisten before I let you go
Sometime down the road

Ivy growing up and down your thighs dear
Have I given you up?
My elision of love

Time will tell how much I need you here
'Cause I won't let you crumble, I won't disappear

For you I chip away
And your body won't ever fade

Cast you as my masterpiece
A perfect work of symmetry
Something's missing
Now that I've
Made you for the world to see
An angel with such golden wings
I'll make you glisten before I let you go
Sometime down the road

Now I want you to remember me
(I molded each moment you gave)
But your shape is changing endlessly
Eyes open, I say

Soften up the whites around your eyes

Cast you as my masterpiece
A perfect work of symmetry
Something's missing
Now that I've
Made you for the world to see
An angel with such golden wings
I envision my elision
I'll make you glisten before I let you go
Sometime down the road