The Tower

the one who survives by making the lives of others worthwhile
she's coming apart right before my eyes

the one who depends on the services she renders
to those who come knocking

she's seeing too clearly that she can't be
what understanding defies
　
she says I need not to need
or else a love with intuition
someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go
　　
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
　　
she turns out the light anticipating night falling
tenderly around her
and watches the dusk
the words won't come
　　
she carries the act so convincingly the fact is
sometimes she believes it
that she can be happy the way things are
be happy with the things she's done
　　
reach out
but hold back
where is safety
reach out
and hold back
where is the one who can change me
where is the one
the one
the one

reach out
but hold back
where is safety
reach out
and hold back
where is the one who can save me
where is the one
the one
the one