when i'm with you
breathing in your exhaled breath
swallowing you down
the rest of the world falls away
until it is just you and i
circling each other
inside a ring of fire

i want to kill you
yet i live for wanting to kill you
wanting to turn your insides out
and taste myself in you
for your blood to run in my veins

if our trigger fingers
ever twitch too hard someday
just know that either way
a part of me will die
it's useless to deny
what makes us whole

you walk around lined with
the other half of my soul
the half i handcuffed and choked off
every day to live with myself

our ill-fated love
has a life of its own
we can never take hold
of what can't be controlled

i've got you locked in my vision
and will never let go
of the only man who knows me
and the only man i know