I+was+saved*

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One night I was drowning I was sinking again in just another dark bar She stepped into the light and it was like I'd just found proof of life on Mars All else was just a wasteland of egos I no longer had the patience to hear She looked me in the eye and said 'what is it exactly that brings you and me right here?'

C G D / D A E / Bb F C / G D A I was saved by her eyes and her impeccable timing I was saved from a loneliness so refined It had almost sealed me in its suffocating skin But love can soothe the strangeness that curdles in your mind

I had thought that being alone was the noble price that I had to pay For the life that I'd fought to imagine that I could live out on the page But I couldn't disentangle desperation and what I called desire I was hostage to the fear of being no one with which I'd conspired

I was saved by the way she saw right through me I was saved by the way that she broke my life apart And then she took each shard and re-built me from the start Her hands were skilled and careful as she reconstruct my heart

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Well now I know that it takes someone to make you stop and take yourself seriously And to stop you standing back with a wry ironic stance so imperiously Like you're stuck away inside in your own Stockholm Syndrome looking through your captor's eyes Until one day someone breaks the d oor down and you're shocked by a startling honest light

And you're saved by the gaze that sees right into you And you're saved by the air and how it curves and sways You're saved by the hands that reach inside to touch your heart You're saved by the words that you keep sharing day by day by day by day

And I was saved by the gaze that saw right into me And I was saved by the air and how it curved and swayed I was saved by the hands that reached inside to touch my heart I was saved by the words that we keep sharing day by day by day by day

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I don't know until then just how I'd survived And for sure I'd thought I couldn't more than once or twice Now here I am still holding on my love still by my side

I was saved by her kiss in time From a loneliness so refined It had almost sealed me in its skin, I thought it was my blood my oxygen I couldn't disentangle desperation and desire

I thought it was the price I paid For the life I lived out on the page Paying the devil for my precious time The cost of chasing ideas unconfined But I was hostage to the fear with which I had conspired

When I was young, I was on my own

I was drowning once more in just another dark bar Trying to catch the souls of all the drinkers I saw When into the light she stepped and ordered a beer

Then into the light, she stepped, in just another dark bar I lifted my eyes, I stopped, like I'd been broken apart And all my darkness just came rushing out She put me back together

Somehow we fell into a waterfall

And all the darkness came rushing out Who could guess that she would find me and throw her safety line I was just one step from tumbling down, but I was saved by her kiss in time

Just another black night in another dark bar I was tumbling into the dregs of a desperate glass When out of the crowd she stepped and all I thought I knew was grime and I was broken apart Everything I thought I knew was left

But I was never sure never sure if what I thought was always feel the darkness driving

I was hanging by the merest thread From toppling downward trapped inside my head When from the shadows and into the light

In just one more tumbling tick of the clock I'd've walked out full of overpriced wine But I was lost in the glow of her eyes

I was Could cast away a lifetime's darkness that I'd let keep me blind I could have lived my life Forever in the thrall of lies But I was saved by her kiss in time I was

I thought that truth was in the darkness breeding deep within The cost of freedom for thought unconfined It was a price I figured worth it just to call it mine

I imagined that I had to sink so that I could climb

__lost in my own dumb lie__

Everything I thought I knew

Like life had been found on Mars there was truth without the darkness there was a life where light came shining in

The cost the devil claimed for precious time I spent in idleness thoughts unconfined

something strange in my heart But who can say what made me look your way Or how we'd know just exactly what to say


 * Box one ||
 * I was stuck - self deluding that the misery I experienced somehow helped with my desire to be a writer - something like you have to know darkness to see the light - the Stockholm syndrome? - the captive in love with their captor? I am the captive and the captor. ||
 * Box two ||
 * She is ? The police storming the barricade I'm locked behind? The brainwashing expert who has to convince me that I'm wrong - I'm freed (but am I also still afraid that something's lost?) ||
 * Box three ||

Something's always lost for what is gained

The devil dancing up and down my spine Some taste of freedom lost in space and time