After The Sirens We Buy Jewelry When The Love Runs Out Lyrics

We Buy Jewelry When The Love Runs Out Lyrics

I have been both lover and beloved, unrequited

dispassionate and quiet around you.



And when I am old, when the skin under my eyes

stretches to wrap around the things I've seen,

what will it mean that I didn't take a chance on you?

Didn't get lost in a glance from you?

This fragile balance, this delicate palace where one left

puts two people on two different paths.

But if I hold out my hands to you

it doesn't make it right, it doesn't make it right.



I want more for my life than my name in lights,

my name in lights!



I've read books and understood them,

understood the looks you gave me

when I sent you a letter from Bennington

telling you that I couldn't leave his grave without a poem of my own

and all I wrote about was having you and not having you.



I want more for my life than my name in lights!