Three-Step Lullaby

By Emilee Petersmark

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I'll give you everything I possess

If you promise to sing me to sleep.

I'll be your comfort the best I can

If you promise you'll be what I need.

This is the last time I'll compromise--

I've already lost more than I have.

Can you simply lay next to me?

Kiss me insane while you lie to me with your eyes.

Oh, this might be all

That we ever know.

Sorry I can't give you

More. Just give me your word

That this sweet imitation

Will be enough for you.

You close your eyes when you lean in,

And wish that I was somebody else.

My eyes are open; our lips collide;

And I wish I was not myself.

Waltzes we're dancing so clumsily--

Don't know the steps so we'll compose our own.

Keep me at arm's length snd spin me around,

But don't be upset if I don't spin back to you.

Oh, this might be all

That we ever know.

Sorry I can't give you

More. Just give me your word

That this twisted romance

Will be enough for you.

This is no silver-screen elegance.

We're messed up and dressed up and saying our lines.

So speak to the audience and take a bow

We're fooling ourselves

And yet this is still wrong in our minds.

Do you mind?

Do you mind?

Do you mind?

I'll give you everything I possess

If you promise to sing me to sleep.