One More Thing Than I Can Handle (Live) [feat. Anika Noni Rose]

Between the look and the look away
I saw paragraphs on paragraphs of wanting
Written in the space around your eyes
And the corners of your smile

Between the look and the look away
I heard louder than the bells of a cathedral
Everything you wish that you could ask
If we only were alone
If we only could be sure that your wife would never know

But that's one more thing than I can handle
One more cross than I can bear
God, you're beautiful
God, it would be easy to say yes
But that's just one more thing than I can handle
One more way I mustn't care
Take me like a photograph
Put me in a drawer beside your fantasies
And leave me there

Between the look and the look returned
I made hundreds of frenetic calculations
Measuring the distance to my dream
And the lights inside the bar
And the force beneath your arms
What I'd say if we got caught

But that's one more thing than I can handle
One more choice that isn't fair
God, you're beautiful
God, it would be nice to aquiesce
If only, if only it weren't one more thing than I can handle
One more never-answered prayer
Close me like a bank account
Drop me at the bottom of your memories
And leave me there

Leave me empty, leave me dry
Leave me hanging on a branch to rot
You might be strong enough, you might be strong enough
But I'm not
I'm not

It's just one more thing than I can handle
One more cross than I can bear
God, you're beautiful
God, it would be nice to
If only, if only, if only
If only it weren't one more thing than I can handle
One more castle in the air
Hide me like an accident, watch me walk away
Light me in the window of your could-have-beens
And leave me there
Leave me there
Leave me there

Hide me like an accident
Watch me walk away

If I leave, if I leave
If I leave