He felt her curves surrounding his necknLike a yokenHe knowsnHe'll never forgetnThe way she cut through his bednLike a snake would bite through a cave of fleshnBut he holds hernThough she's brokennHe swears he don't care where she's beennnHe's tired of being humannHe wears her close to the bone as though she were his own skinnnHe shoots from the heart instead of the headnHis mouth and his words they rarely connectnHe looks to the past and where his tongue's treadnAnd he knows he meant the oppositennBut she holds himnLike an infantnThough it breaks her in half to know he'll wake like a mannSold on cold indifferencenWhen he reaches for her she's gonenShe slips like the wind through blackened sails, butnnWho are we to love at all?nnAnd I hope you don't mindnIf I hang all of my hopesnI hang all my hopes on this timenAlthough I've been warnednI'll probably get burnednI'd rather get burned than to not trynnI hope you don't mindnIf I hang all of my hopesnI hang all of my hopes on this timen'Cause you won'tnLet it go