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? Keep me on your porch, on your tongue Beating in your chest, or coming undone Folded neatly in the cover of your favorite book Keep me at a distance in your maze Fumbling through a contemplative haze, keep me Or tucked away clandestinely where no one else will look Where my broken sky reaches to your velvet sea 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 Keep me under God or on your wall Behind closed doors forever after all Or headed south on the blacktop ribbon we designed Keep me, the mantle of integrity Investing in something, I'll never see Keep me at 30,000 feet or in the windows of your mind In a corner of your heart under lock and key Will you keep me? 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" Keep me under God or on your wall Behind closed doors forever after all Or headed south on the blacktop ribbon we designed Keep me, the mantle of integrity Investing in something, I'll never see Keep me at 30,000 feet or in the windows of your mind In a corner of your heart under lock and key Will you 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, will you keep me?