The Flaming Side of the World

Seems like you’re sad when awake
I’m dreaming of your killing passion
But you are the one I can’t take
Regarding you as the perfect abstraction

I’ve seen you and I’ve let you win
With your animal-like attraction
That is the only thing I believe in
And that is my only salvation

Save me, my fury is blind
My insanity eats me like mold
Looking at you I’m hiding behind
The flaming side of the world

Show me your precious, don’t turn me away
Dance like a diamond snake, come closer
I know there’s our own place to stay
But no, I’ll go first, I won’t force you

So we’ll tie our wrists with one chain,
Jump off the roof of a skyscraper
And I’ll love and want you again and again
As if tomorrow won’t ever happen

Laying my heart on the ground
Still seeing your face on my wall
When you let me in I’ll stop reeling around
The flaming side of the world

Fill my veins with your wild wine,
One sinful kiss, and I feel something ancient
I can’t ever sleep not knowing you’re mine
Be my pain, be my wound, be my angel

Don’t we pretend blind and deaf?
The ghost cries at night for the lover
Your skin’s melting under my breath
Your soft coral’s stealing my power

I’m screaming again, “Oh my Brett!”
Help me, my strength won’t last long
It takes such a cold, lonely way to get
To the flaming side of the world


(dedicated to Brett Anderson)