Up Close

by Brianna Lane 4/8/05

It’s that I love you
And you love her
And I love someone else too

And you love me
It’s so confusing
Not to mention
Bad bad timing

Now there’s a need to be still
someday we will cut the kite stings
and forget all about
what’s holding us down
see the morning
up close

this thing I’ve got
going on
it’s bound to end
it’s already so wrong

so I’ll burry you deeply
inside my heart
like a letter to a shoebox under the bed
I’ll dig you out sometime

Now there’s a need to be still
someday we will cut the kite stings
and forget all about
what’s holding us down
see the morning
up close

it’s bad timing to be stuck to the ground
toes in the grass burrowing down
into tightly tangled webs of roots and desire
where no one is telling the truth but no one’s a liar

Now there’s a need to be still
someday we will cut the kite stings
and forget all about
what’s holding us down
see the morning
up close