she burns like the sunlight on my face
she unpacks me like an old suitcase.
she crumples me.. like bad poetry.
she folds me like a keeping flower.
she spends me like half an hour
she waits for me… eternally
she speaks me like an ancient tongue
entreats my jealousy to come.

she welcomes me when it hurts.
she receives me (deeply) like a church.
she washes me like a wave.
she saves me when there's none to save
she solves me like a problem.
she points out my sins and absolves 'em.

she cracks me like a riddle
she plucks me like a fiddle
she ignores me like an estranged wife
she takes my breath but gives me life
.she is the end of envy's strife.
she is misery, sorrow and joy combined
euphoria, jubilation, yet so sublime

she salvages me like a treasure
she tests my strength on a daily measure
she waits me out like a fire
she wears me down like a tire
she puts me on like a skintight fur
she devours me like h'ordeurves
she finds me like a four leaf clover
she says she'll say yes when we’re older

she overtakes me like an avalanche.
she lifts me like an olive branch/
she hurts me like a four year old.
she tells me so at least I’m told
she fools me like a child.
she reveres me like I’m wild
she squanders me like a wad of cash.
she reveals me like an exhibitionist

she martyrs me like an accident
she catches me like a baseball mitt
she's jealous like a former lover.
she wrinkles my sheets but folds the covers.
she smokes me down like a cigarette
she forgets me like she does regret
she defines me like a photograph
shows me the charts and does the math

she reaches me like a messenger
she hums me like an overture
she warms me like an open oven
in a mid-winter’s kitchen

she involves me like a witness
she points here and says "kiss this."
she draws me in (like a breath)
she thaws me out from coldest death
she lures me out (like i'm venomous)
she drives me in, she's magnanimous
she dreams me like a virgin she kills me like a surgeon

she heals me like the breath of spring
she teases me like an long lost fling
she wanders me like a voyager
she travels me like a passenger
she picks my pocket like a vagabond
she strikes me down like I’m obi-wan

she encircles me like a shrine of peace,
she says. I’ll wait for you, will you wait for me?
she's says, “do you think we will ever see each other again?”
but honey i'm closer now than i've ever been
and just when i swear i have her figured out
she steals my certainty and brings me doubt

she says my name in this breathless way
she steals my pain oh but how I ache
she pays the debts I can’t repay
she slays the demons I couldn’t slay
she wonders as I wander
she holds me while I ponder
she she she


she she she
she she she
she she she


words and music by robb