Hanging On The Wire

I came there to tell you I gave up
words, I just lost nerve to say them
looking at you when I could
into your eyes, couldn't betray them

who cares really in the long run
there are plenty hanging on the wire
to have you for their own for once
they don't see despite their desire

that you will never be owned
even for a minute, nonetheless, a night
but still I'm here, a coward I admit
letting you believe I'm still in the fight

when honestly I fell off awhile ago
after all these years of wanting you, and then
having you over and over and over again
but not ever mine, never to win

figuring I was lucky to have touched you
but I'd only betrayed myself in fire
I'll come again and have the nerve to say
I'm no longer hanging on the wire.