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I was tired of tearing holes in sheetsWhen the clouds came down all around our feetBut you were there, hands full of leavesNose against the glass, waiting to breatheAnd when you came up into the hayHow the lights were soft, how cold the dayAnd how you held me still like a work of clayPainting my body blue and my eyelids grayAnd if you had seen me leave in the morningI was up at dawn, I was there and goneThere is a peace like painting stars on the ceilingLike a mother tongue, like an undone songSometimes there is a canvas that is blankAnd I thank God you have a color and a shapeAnd you were scared of the fires of loveSeeing the street below and the ghosts aboveBut we hang our chains and we wear our glovesWith our eyes like fangs and our hands like dovesStay away, away, I feel the line disappearingBetween you and me; between the river and the seaI slept half the day just to waste the eveningLetras de cancionesCoax the vines from me, be my hanging treeSometimes there is a crashing in my ears like angry waves,Like a frozen phrase at the end of daysSometimes I wake to find my bones terribly achingI hope you find someone who is yours for the takingWe're all built from dust with our mouths agapeKnowing everybody blurs on videotapeAnd when we trace the stars we get the same damn shapesWhether we chant like monks or we flail like apesAnd if you had seen me laughing and bleedingYou'd have known my smile, you might've liked my styleBut there is a sleep, comes without a warningAnd I lose mile after mile after mileSometimes there is light that dances in your eyesLike stones streaked violet and goldSometimes you just hang suspended in the seaLike red and green, like the fire you breathed into my blue snowOh to be the light curling beneath your door like the frail young universeIn dreams so green and tender where you sleepAnd oh to be the ice that held you up like an angel on the waterI would hold onto you forever and then I'd leave From Letras Mania