Steel Strings

The nostalgia is too much

How when it comes, it comes, and hits me with a rush

I try to save the dreams you've crushed

and you give me every reason to call your bluff

So I'll wrap myself in something warm

To calm this chill, and arm my alarm

Next time I'll be prepared for when you show

Instead of crying like a child who can't be left alone

And I'll let your poetry flow through my veins

before packing it in storage where it forever will remain

I still feel passion, but I still have my pride

and here is where my broken feelings reside

Every note tapped on steel strings of that guitar

are a reminder in the end, that I haven't come that far

So please get out of my head

If just for the same reasons I got out of your bed

I don't have room enough to share

with all the other lovers vying for your stare

Why do we cling to the things that tear us down?

Like our pain's a sense of comfort we just can't live without

I still feel passion, but I still have my pride

and here is where my broken feelings reside

Every note tapped on steel strings of that guitar

are a reminder in the end, that I haven't come that far