Chameleon

I talk like a chameleon and I'm waiting on my back
Hiding my children from the storm
And I know
As far as ethereal goes you have forgotten it all
And it's once bitten, twice and those poppies have put you to sleep
Can you shake off her narcosis as you're staring back at me?

As brave as I am I come out talking counterfeit
You're no mystery to me I just can't work out how to breathe slowly
But this is nothing new
I'll be the rain on my own

You didn't have so much to say
As I put my insides on a plate
You didn't want to look let alone swallow
You didn't to look let alone be

As brave as I am I come out with a broken down mystery
And I can't work out how you cannot love me
But this is nothing new
It has been done, I must let it be
Not walk around with untidy hands
Making you my own misery

You didn't want me to have much to say
My insides they were waiting by the telephone, on a table
And you didn't want to look let alone swallow me
You didn't want to look let alone

Take a chance at reinventing yourself in some other world with me
A love out of context without reference to your shaped reality
But what you don't want is okay boy
It's nothing new to me
It has been done, I must let it be
(You talk like you made the moment, but you have no right to complain)