Keep Me

(album: Knock On The Sky - 2002)

This can't really be what life is all about
Learning how to live just to live without
The travesty's the irony and the irony is you
I've traded in my sanctity for a cheaper shade of blue

And as I surrender to this sunken bed
So afflicted by the tenant in my head
Even now, I wonder how you lay her down to sleep
When secretly, I know it's my soul that you pray to keep
But will you really keep me

[First Chorus:]
(Keep me)
On your porch, or on your tongue
(Keep me)
Beating in your chest, or coming undone
(Keep me)
Folded neatly in the cover of your favorite book
(Keep me)
At a distance, in your maze
Fumbling through a contemplative haze
Or tucked away clandestinely, where no one else will look
Where my broken sky reaches to your velvet sea
Will you keep me, will you keep me

Drowning in the bottom of this empty glass
I pray God is good and that this too shall pass
Then from the abyss, maybe I'll find a sweet reprieve
When the echo of your kiss reminds me to believe
That you'll always keep me

[Second Chorus:]
(Keep me)
Under God or on your wall
(Keep me)
Behind closed doors, forever after all
(Keep me)
Or headed south on the blacktop ribbon we designed
(Keep me)
The mantle of integrity
(Keep me)
Investing in something I'll never see
(Keep me)
At thirty-thousand feet or in the windows of your mind
In a corner of your heart, under lock and key
Will you keep me, will you keep me

[Bridge:]
Traipsing on hallowed ground
Has brought a lifelong sentence
Now, living without your breath to fill my lungs
Will be my penance
And even as I feel
I hope you feel it just as deeply
And even though you've let me go
Say you'll always keep me
Say you'll always keep me

The melody you misconstrue
On the ocean crashing into you
Or waiting for the man you'll never have the heart to be
In the fervent strains of the tragic elegy

Will you keep me
Will you keep me
Oh, oh, will you keep me
Will you keep me

[Fade]