It's Not Up To You

A shiver crawls up my spine
And tears my limbs.
I quiver to be warm
And to be full again.
The glacial moon meets the burning sun
But somewhere along the line
We ran out of land upon which to run.
This structure was never mine,
So I'll take yours until I'm warm again.

But I swore you would never see the day

When the wolves I kept at bay

Would come knocking on our door,

But I wore that mask just like a face.
Now you're left with the taste
Of cheap colored wine
And another white lie.

One day you'll open your eyes

Just to find that the outside

Is growing dimmer with the night.
It's up to me to decide
If the timing is right
Or if we should have left
When we still had the chance.
Now we're chained to the ground
And the hounds of the wood
Won't be chasing their dinner tonight.
Sit tight, sit tight!
Yeah, I might make it out alive,
But you're not so lucky this time.

But I swore you would never see the day

When the wolves I kept at bay

Would come knocking on our door,

But I wore that mask just like a face.
Now you're left with the taste
Of cheap colored wine
And another white lie.

You're not safe by my side!

I was your best kept secret.
You were my perfect mistake.
And now our only regret

Is that you never got to see me awake.

So shake out the curtains

And wake up the sun.

This must be done

If you ever want to breathe me in again.

- afm