Abstract Love

Abstract Love

We’re all adults here

In a fishbowl of abstract love

With such grand ideals

All the best of intentions

Just to lose our way

Rudderless and impulsive

Fight or flight, kiss or wait

Fit it in some narrative

We’ll understand when we’re older

We keep telling ourselves

You’ll get it right if you keep telling yourself…

As I grow older

I am starting to believe

That adults are only children

With a license to be…

Left unsupervised

Left unsupervised

Frail as soap bubbles

Suspended on a glass ceiling

We think it’s inclusive

We forget it’s just a time and place

Until we lose our way

Sand to glass, then glass to dust

Words alone can’t maintain

Warmer ties than usefulness

We’ll understand when we’re older

We keep telling ourselves

You’ll get it right if you keep telling yourself…

(What you want to hear)

But as I grow older

I am starting to believe

That adults are only children

With a license to be…

Left unsupervised

Left unsupervised

And you know you can’t have your pity parade

From the arms of a rock star

But you keep crying

She’ll never talk you down

It was so, so gallant when he held your hair back

But that’s what he’s good at

He holds things back

He’ll never talk you down

You know they’ll never talk you down

As I grow older

I am starting to believe

That adults are only children

With a license to be…

Left unsupervised

Left unsupervised

But we’re all adults here

In a fishbowl of abstract love

And it’s all sincere

It’s all sincere…

It’s all sincere

And we’ll never talk you down

 

December 5, 2016