Look Away

Two eyes staring back at me

From a magazine in my room

Cut out paper tragedies

Paper tragedies that I glue

So what is a memory

If it only feels black and blue?

Creating a fantasy

Something I can dream

That is true

I will only look away If you say If you say

I will only look away If you say If you say

I don't see it

Another message left for me in code

Hieroglyphics

I never figured out how to

Unfold your paper crane origami agony

I ripped the edged

It gave me pleasure

Figuring it out

Each question in a shroud

It was forever, wasn't forever

I will only look away If you say If you say

I will only look away If you say If you say

Now when I close my eyes I see how much I've lost

From scratching a memory 'til all the colors off

Revealing a jagged line til they're in black and white

When I close my eyes

If I close my eyes

But I can't laugh about it yet

It's all too soon

The things we used to joke about have all come true

I had to slowly back away

I will lonely look away If you say If you say

I will lonely look away If you say

I will lonely look away If you say If you say

I will never look away If you say