The Tempest Lovers

Nothing went no where and
The doors are locked but
You know we aren’t locked in
Because the world feels so locked out
That I can taste this
That I can finally feel this
We knew we weren’t good
At this kind of thing but
Here we are again
And I can feel the storm

We giggled like children across our static hope
And set suburbia ablaze with everything we had
Nicotine and empty dreams couldn’t hold us down.
You we’re my favorite empty promise…

We knew things were bad
So we held hands as our
Worlds came crashing down on
Us in a tempest of broken hearts
Are you’re hands warm enough baby?
We’re shaking so hard we thought
That we found something that
Evolution couldn’t steal from us
So we plucked roses from exhaust
Pipes and kissed under oblivion.

He drank enough to set fire to his words
And she smoked so many cigarettes it broke his heart
But they sang songs so brilliant it’d crack smokestacks
You were such an empty promise…

Love wasn’t enough so we
Threw it down the stairs like that
Guy did with a chainsaw in “American
Psycho” But I’m no Christian Bale
So she won’t come back to me we
Took everything we knew about
The subject and shot it off at each other
Like two nuclear weapons aimed
For the other, oh who’s the better lover?
Because it doesn’t matter how
Hard it hits me, I’m already broken and
I’m taking you with me!

Why don’t you sing something beautiful as
I blow you to smithereens!

Oblivion’s raining broken hearts under the mushroom cloud of our love
So take back “I love you’s” in our deserted waste land before the storm comes!
Before the storm comes! Take it all back! Please god, take it all back!
I MISS SCREAMING LIKE CHILDREN
I MISS FALLING LIKE SKYSCRAPERS
I MISS SINKING LIKE OIL TANKERS
I MISS BURNING LIKE FORESTS

Because we can’t take back the Armageddon tomorrow brings
On this battlefield of broken hearts, I’m a fucking deserter.