Pose

Holding a pose, live to abide

Wait in the wings, avoiding eyes

Tangled in ropes that tighten with time

Without a look from you they would unite

Caught in a freeze holding my breath

In disbelief how time doesn't end

Clusters of dust that crumble away

Unable to change while you only fade

Oh, old in a while

You are just one, one in the line

Thinking that time itself's on your side

Unknowing that I could see right past the lie

It was a beast that blindsided me

Bloodied my face, but left me my feet

To run away from the place that I keep

Learning the bittersweet taste of defeat

Oh, can't stop running

Oh, can't stop

Then comes the night when you close the blinds

There in the dark no need to hide

We move in patterns we follow the signs

Looking for things that we can't help but find

We fall in love we cause applause

We fall apart finding we're lost

Come back to ourselves and return before dawn

And hope for a day that we can't be caught

Don't need to drink

Don't need to eat don't need to sleep

Don't need the things that you think that you need

And that's the difference between you and me

Different hands garbing ahold

Swinging and swaying away from my home

But home is a place that I've never known

Only a guest on a shelf in a pose

Oh, can't stop running

Oh, can't stop running

Hand me down

To your children's

Children's

Children's

Children!