i tried to save a girl i truly loved and didn't

quite know how to help her.

so now she's sleeping as her parents up

above cry over things that they can't

hell her. and when i did my good deed i

thought i'd feel unbroken gladness, but

standing in the street alone i just felt

sinking sadness. girl you dad will not

us bless so take off you veil and

dress. look at me and take on guess

where this best intentioned love will

lead us i once felt a feeling fully

throught, though i knew i shouldn't feel

it, because to act on it i'd be a person

who should be slapped into a

straitjacket. so every time it comes

around i just let it die inside me you

said, "i only come around because i

just need you to hide me" so we knelt

in those dead weeds, sticks and sharp

rocks cutting into our knees. and i

thought that we would freeze, but there

was just tooo much warm bloood in our

bodies i'm not going to make you take the pills,

though you should really think

about it the fire by which we both

were almost killed glowed so

beautiful-don't doubt it - but we have

to make a choice now; can we glow

without it? there's a space i tried to fill

but i'm seeing now i never will. you fly

around while i stand still, until i slowly

just get smaller and smaller. i tried to

save a girl i truly loved and i never

would desert her, but we both found

out that i was dreaming of the day i

thoroughly could hurt her. and i saw

myself inside her eyes; this shringking

would-be savior resented her for never

needing him and couldn't wait just to

betray her. so we drove back to her

place from the temporary home that we

had made, and i stepped back into the

street, feeling the fullest moment of my

life slowly shrink away from me