Safe For Now - The American Scene

«Safe For Now»

We turned rest into home

And sank into the things that we didn’t know

We took off our clothes

To keep away from what seemed to be so impossibly unavoidable

And we might need to come back down;

We might not lose the love we found

I’m not leaving this room till you can tell me the truth

Did you really think I’d just watch you leave?

Like that’s just how it is?

Yea that sounds like me

But I knew better than to think that you’d be done with this so soon

And I could feel the cold creeping out of your skin

Calmer by the second we let silence settle in

And left the things we couldn’t say buried with those bedroom days

That blurred into an image of the simplest parts of us

I’m not leaving this room till you can tell me the truth

Did you really think I’d just watch you leave?

Like that’s just how it is?

Yea that sounds like me

But I knew better than to think that you’d be done with this so soon

Did you get it all out?

Are we safe for now?

Did this brittle boned bending of mine

Make you feel, make you feel

A little more alive?..