FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND

You were breaking like the ground beneath me, burn up like a dream
 I keep off lightning strikes on summer nights on television
 Now I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep
 That night I tripped and broke my rib cage on a bar seat drunk for weeks
 Chasing ambulances, stumbled to my bedsheets
 Softly drift off after peaceful things
 I had once a release down in the streets
 Now hear it beyond, our footsteps ending at the pond
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 Don't get why you believed in me so much to follow and retrieve it all
 That sanctity I scattered so indifferently
 Still you called on me breathe you out, you begged the breeze:
 "Relieve me from what settles deep and burns down underneath if you believe"
 My love's like a battered dog, wanders under street signs
 Subside into nothingness
 Burns up like a bad dream gone
 I guess I needed you to freeze me out
 Those corners of your dreams
 I think you needed me to bleed out loud
 I guess I needed you to freeze me up
 Those corners of your dreams
 I guess you needed me to leave
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 Still you carried me to sleep, living in dream retreats
 Grasping for an older me, some faded image
 And it carries you to sleep, breathes out in the fog before me
 And cat tails hit your knees to sense some soul promise
 To scatter all their seeds, to grow before they leave
 For life and all its consequential, complicated scenes
 They shake you out of sleep
 Scrape our knees beneath your feet
 I think we bleed because we need to bleed
 We bleed because we need
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 I just wanted you to carry on and carry me
 I guess I wanted you to need the things I needed you to be
 I just wanted you to carry on and carry for me
 I guess I wanted you to leave
 I guess you needed me to bleed
 Out loud
 I guess I needed you to freeze me out
 Those corners of your dreams
 I guess you needed me bleed out loud
 I guess I needed you to freeze me up
 Those corners of your dreams
 I guess I needed me to leave
 Come and shake me from my sleep
 Burn up in a bad dream like a belief
 Come and shake me from my sleep
 Come and hold me for weeks