These Notes Float

The fingers dance across this keyboard
Your hands dance across my heart and squeeze
Deep breath as I spiral down
No grip can hold me here
Not even those eyes that tear at my soul.

As I walk away my heart pounds
Desperate to escape my chest and come back to you
But you never wanted it to start with
Those were just pretty lies
That lay in bed with me at night
And left me to cry in the morning light

These streets are new and the faces are too
The small apartment and smell of city
None of it is familiar
None of it is you

If I could tell you now
That I would stay if you just asked
Begged and promised
Just hold me close before the future becomes the now
Don't let me go so easily
Don't keep lying
While my heart is bleeding, breaking, dying

Each step is a step away
Each night leads to a future day
And we smile, grin and bare it
As we lie and tell each other shit

I love you is the truest thing I can say
But it won't ever matter
Because you will let me walk away that day
Because you won't be true to me and to you.