By Your Side

Tensions raise, emotions tamed
A kiss, a promise, all to gain
Tears or joy, endurance tests
Guilt and shame as a recompense
Pressure mounts, shatter, break
Penance made for our mistakes

Knives are out, 'til blood will flow
The deepest cut, the mortal blow
Returning stares in mirrors trained
Swapping places, hearts exchanged
Insults careless, though implied
Doubts that linger paid in kind

If you were I
If it could be so easy

Heart is racing, synaptic flow
The moments pass, and the glass explodes
Who protects us, if it hurts too much?
Can we turn away, when we fear to touch?

Assess, reply, retract, comply
Dave attacks when challenge mounts
Love is warm
Love's for those who wield a dagger, or a rose
The endless trade in complements, illusions of our lesser selves

An elemental force of will
Demanding heed at beck and call
Set us up, in case we fall
Notions sent, and binding all
Unrestricted to wishes tied
Halls of riches, fantasized

If you were I
If it could be so easy

Heart is racing, synaptic flow
The moments pass, and the glass explodes
Who protects us, if it hurts too much?
Can we turn away, when we fear to touch?

And I'll be by your side
And I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side
And I'll be by your side

Heart is racing, synaptic flow
The moments pass, and the glass explodes
Who protects us, if it hurts too much?
Can we turn away, when we fear to touch?

Fire alighting, a cold embrace
Should we go too far, into splinter's break?
Connection forms, and it screams so much
The second's slow, when we fear to touch