Necessary Affliction

These black and white images

won’t disappear from my head

When your razor first cut me,

it was poetry I bled.

Verse 1

You remind me of an amethyst

Another stone I can’t handle

Since the Ides of March

Not a one could hold a candle

Six hours to eternity

It’s still my favorite song

The end came before the start,

I blinked and you were gone.

Chorus

You have become my necessary affliction

I can’t breathe words without this pain

And you have become my cataclysmic addiction

I can’t reach the top unless I’m screaming your name

Verse 2

My fascination with you

drove me to my knees

Until I gave in,

It was never going to let me breathe.

So I dared to bare my secret

without further hesitation

Of all the lovers that have tried

You were my first supplication

Repeat chorus

Bridge

Your voice was like leather

running over my skin.

Every word was thunder

I tried to hold on,

but you dragged me down.

I smiled as you pulled me under

Verse 3

All friendships have their cycles

So maybe we’ll meet again

There could be something else to master

Left out of the first lesson

It got lost in the translation,

It was all a metaphor.

But when the wounds begin to scar

I remember what I’m fighting for.

Repeat chorus

© Ethereal 2004