Pull my ribbon like a rose
To see the thorns that so ever grow
Up on the stem as we are blooming
And play my sorrow like a lute
To appease what demons you allude
And bring what fortune I so desire babe
And while you wonder and wail
I'll stall for you
Your demons and mine intertwined
With a rose now a thorn in my side
So I'll pull your ribbon like that rose
And I speak the things you could never show
To keep a secret ever looming
And I'll paint your sorrow a disguise
For in your dreams you must realize
You must bleed true here around the fire babe
And while you wait for the world
I'll call to you
The truth like a lie on my mind
That make my life through your eyes seem so blind
So I'll pull your ribbon until it breaks
The seal you so seldom fake
To see your mind is now alive child
And nothing is as it once was
For as we move so do our tongues
But just for you I'll say I'm new here
And while you wait for the words
I'll stall for you
With good fortune and how it's designed
With the rose as it flowers on my mind
And I'll hope
That it can cope
When I lose my mind
So if you catch me while I'm falling
We'll hit the ground before I'm ready to decide
But if you caught me and we're falling
Then I suppose there ain't no need for me to hide
Or fake the state of my mind
And if you need me keep on calling
And we'll sit beneath the viaducts 'tween the streams
And to the silky strings of silence
I'll bring a dream for us to weave between the seems
So sew the silk that sits so softly
To the moonlight of my eyes like a golden beam
Then bleed the slip stream
Where I lost my mind
And I learned by now that there's no sense of time
As we wonder through the vestibules of life
And then a light shines and I struggle to call to mind
A need for me to take whats mine
So I'll break
And in a child-like state
I'll say I got for you this rose
So you'd say we're safe now from the snow
But I don't suppose you ever wonder like I do
How I ever fell asunder into you