Melted Dice

There’s a light in your eyes
An ill advice that gets my skin quivering like a baby
Taking a breath of this cold world in
Which can be over and underwhelming, unforgiving
Existential like the shroud of Turin
Whatever fire fuels you within, oh, I hope it never bleeds a new bitterness
Driving on the 10 West
It’s the way you can commandeer a room like a sensual caress
Can teach a dolphin English
Or maybe it’s something more pedestrian and I’m blind to it

You make my head
Spin around like loaded dice
Every time you roll into view
You make the years behind us
Disappear like melted ice
Every time you roll into view
I am yours, you are mine

Born an accidental tourist with a demagnetized moral compass
Easy play for dark-haired gypsies who dazzle me with physics
Wallow me with rain sticks
Will you be my umbrella and overwhelm me or consume me?
Existential to the point of bruising
Whatever fire fuels us within, oh, I hope it never burns into bitterness

You make my head
Spin around like loaded dice
Every time you roll into view
You make all the years behind us
Disappear like melting ice
Every time you roll into view
I am yours, you are mine

If I'm questioned under duress
Tortured and manacled, I won’t confess
How many licks it takes me to get
To the center of your affection
Feed me to feral dogs in the street
Whip me with chains and concrete my feet
Drop me at sea and I’ll smile as I sink
I’ll never betray who you are

There’s a light in your eyes
That penetrates, shines right inside me
You see not who I am right now but the man who I’ve always struggled to be
Which can be over and underwhelming, unforgiving
Existential self-destruction
Whatever fire fuels you within, oh, I hope it consumes me before it ends
Driving on the 10 West