To Be With You...

I've been through the wringer, baby.

You don't even ring my line. 

I've been wasting away, 

When you won't even waste your time. 

You don't spend a dime on me.

I'm lonely...

But I give you the best company of your life.

I've been to hell and back, baby. 

But you won't address that, maybe...

You've never seen the devil in your deeds. 

I've been sacrificing heaven,

Just to keep you here on earth. 

You never sacrificed a thing,

Cuz you think that I'll never leave. 

Let me lay it out for you. 

The dynamic of this duo... 

It might be good for you.

But it's not so good for me.

I've been starving myself just to feed you.

I've been lending myself to complete you.

I've been killing myself just to please you.

I've been losing myself just to keep you.

I've been through the tough, baby.

Just to give you love.

Only to find out...

It will never be enough.

It's unreciprocated, 

Efforts, unappreciated. 

So I think it's way past the time to give up.

It's getting a little old, honey. 

This story's been told...

About a thousand times over our history. 

Now that we're history in the making, 

You'll be so sad when I'm gone. 

The only time you'll ever see me is in your dreams.

I've been starving myself just to feed you.

I've been lending myself to complete you.

I've been killing myself just to please you.

I've been losing myself just to keep you.

And now what should I do,

When I have nothing left? 

You're the light of my life, 

Now I'm just a shadow of myself. 

Because that's what I gave to you. 

Along with everything else. 

I'll be here just existing.

You'll move on to whatever poor heart is next.

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[jacob erin-cilberto]

I've been starving myself just to feed you.
I've been lending myself to complete you.
I've been killing myself just to please you.
I've been losing myself just to keep you.

I find this stanza to be one I wish I had written.
I have been in these kinds of relationships...
so one-sided we bleed ourselves dry trying to keep it together and get
no help from the other side...eventually our emotions just coagulate into ice.
j.