Our Only Out

There is no warmth
Without you, in my world
Hold on to me
This is our only out
I'm sorry

Hop into the car and over to the hospital
I'm walking through the halls and I stop to get a card
But you'd probably only get more confused
So i pour some booze to distort the truth
And continue over to you, stop & stare at your rocking chair
Wondering if they're giving you proper care when I'm not in here
Slipping you a little help to slow your sorrow
But what good is a cork to a broken bottle
But I will stay by your bedside
As long as it takes, I'll wait for you this time
Rest my dear broken record player
Any hope left has been spoken in a prayer
Just to cope with seeing you frozen in that chair
Staring out the window with such little focus in your glare
Got me choking up, when I approach and you get scared
My only love, how could we be close for all those years
Then grow old and open fears that I told you
I would always keep you safe from
Now I'm the one you want to stay away from
There, there, it'll be fine
Is the lie that I tell myself to keep my
Mind state sane safe and sedated
Wait, it's just time playing tricks on us
Your mind, I can fix it just let me at your heart
I will free you from this prison it's the key to unlock your cell
Your walking hell... I believe our talks can help
More than the docs can tell, I know you're not so well
But check your pocket, there's a locket that I gave to you
Thirty years ago and remember I would say to you
When we're very old let these photos show
That you can peer into our very souls
And know the only road we ever drove on was
Paved with hope and growth and not
Laced with broken stones and open holes
But whether or not I stay, I know you cope alone
Broken spokes on a bitter ride, a choke hold on a crippled mind
As you blink your wide eyes to communicate
Open close, live or die, almost like you're
Symbolizing the simplified life you're doomed to hate
All of a sudden, things slow down
Time is up, my love, gotta go now
But just as I go to bid my retreat
Like the wind hitting the trees, you whisper to me and say

There is no warmth
Without you, in my world
Hold on to me
This is our only out
I'm sorry

You don't have to say a thing
I can read the spaces between your words
And you don't ask for anything
But I refuse to sit here, and watch as you get worse