Closer

Closer Mm... of all the rooms Of all the nights It had to be you standing in mine I know And I hate that I let you catch me looking I looked first I've had softer, sweeter, easier — forgot them all by morning I don't circle things, I don't return But one cold look from you settles in my skin like smoke And yet, the same street, again I'm the fire they circle, I don't circle back She burns, I keep walking past So why am I the one circling So why do I map the shortest way back I've burned better men to ash without blinking She'll melt me down to water, to nothing So why does the frost feel like hands Noted, filed, walking there anyway Closer — no — closer Everything about you says don't Every step I take says won't And here I am... here you are Hate how you read me, hate that you're right Hate that the dark's less dark tonight Can't want this — can't stop — Come here, stay back, don't stop Curtains open, on purpose, I know it Guilty Everything I built holds, except near her Good Frost climbing the glass — wrong direction, toward the flame Then come toward the flame This is error, this is rot in the beam Then let it rot, baby Closer — no — closer Everything about you says don't Every step I take says won't And here I am... here you are Hate how you read me, hate that you're right Hate that the dark's less dark tonight Can't want this — can't stop — Come here, stay back, don't stop You'd ruin me Completely, you'd freeze me out by June To the bone So why are you closer than you were Why are you Magnet math... nobody's fault... nobody's moving away Closer — no — closer Everything about you says don't Every step I take says won't And here I am... here you are Hate how you read me, hate that you're right Hate that the dark's less dark tonight Can't want this — can't stop — Come here, stay back, don't stop This is a terrible idea The worst, noted, filed You're still here So are you