Winter Phase: The Way that You Do

The Way that You Do

Please don’t pretend it
Don’t try to mend it
Don’t you dare send it away
No need to defend it
I just hope you don’t spend it all up in three days…
You don’t think that I see what is going on
You say you’re leaving but you’re already gone

You don’t
Look at someone
The way that you do
Unless there is something
Between them and you…
You don’t
Look at someone
The way that you do
Unless
You want something
You’re feeling construed

So give me the details
From rental to retail
Don’t quail from me with such a face
Your heart has set sail
Saying out love is stale as flowers in an empty vase…
Do you really hurt me without any thought?
Dovetailing some hat rack boy that you caught

You don’t
Look at someone
The way that you do
Unless
There is something
Between them and you…
You don’t
Look at someone
The way that you do
Unless
They’ve got something
That stokes you renewed

So here’s that dead end that’s been so long coming
The sign on the turn says it told us so, Honey
But we drag through these motions
Holding dizzy as love abates
When did passion come in rations?
I believe we’re fashionably too late
With my volcanic glass
And your pyramidal orchid…
Across the martini clatter
I watch you shatter the ice sculpture with him

So don’t pretend it
Don’t try to mend it
Don’t you dare send it away
No need to defend it
I just hope you don’t spend it all up the very same way…
You don’t think that I care, but you’re so damn wrong
I’d say goodbye if you weren’t already long gone

You don’t
Look at someone
The way that you do
Unless there is something
Between them and you
You don’t
Look at someone
The way that you do
Unless
There is something
Between them and you, between them and you
Between you and me
There is this pain only
Between them and you, between them and you
Between you and me
Is just dead air history
Between them and you, between them and you
Between you and me
Sometimes I still get so lonely…