It takes a lot, babe, I know myself

You feel uncertain, black orchid petal | In an empty vase on the sill

It takes a lot babe, I know myself | After this time I'm going to someone else You feel uncertain, black orchid pedal On an empty vase on the sill I don't care how golden your hair How blue your eyes how fractured your stare Don't remember nothing back then My eyes did smile but oh my heart was thin If I ever knew you so hard to tell But it never got to me, I know myself

It takes a lot babe, I know myself | After this time I'm going to someone else You feel uncertain, black orchid pedal On an empty vase on the sill I don't care how golden your hair How blue your eyes how fractured your stare Don't remember nothing back then My eyes did smile but oh my heart was thin If I ever knew you so hard to tell But it never got to me, I know myself

Don't remember nothing back then | I don't care how golden your hair How blue your eyes, how fractured your stare Don't remember nothing back then My eyes did smile but, oh, my heart was thin

I don't care how golden your hair | How blue your eyes how fractured your stare Don't remember nothing back then My eyes did smile but oh my heart was thin If I ever knew you so hard to tell But it never got to me, I know myself

From the dead, from the dead, from ahead | When they came, sang guitar on my bed

And you never knew How much I really liked you | When you cycled by Here began all my dreams The saddest thing I've ever seen And you never knew How much I really liked you Because I never even told you Oh, and I meant to

I know you, I remember from the grass stain | Every morning, got a hollow where my heart goes I never listen, but I see it with my eyes closed I know you, I remember from the grass stain Maybe I could be a better human with a new name

I tell you how I feel but you don't care | I say tell me the truth but you don't dare You say love is a hell you cannot bear And I say give me mine back and then go there for all I care I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds, you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways So don't forget what I told you don't come around I got my own hell to raise

You never wanted me babe | Someday someone will leave you And I know you'll feel the same You'll mark it down to memory And the dream that never came Well there are no answers given When love is just a game