Love Long Lost

leave me behind in your browser history close all the open tabs file this chapter under morbid curiosity curiosity killed the cat left the poor dog with nothing to bark at If only two jars of formaldehyde or wishing alone kept this thing alive it coulda shoulda woulda been the long lost love of my life not just parts barely holding firm in the scrapbook with every turn i’m keeping less losing more drifting farther and farther from the shore. we flew 2000 miles to find our sorrows at the bottom of stiff piña coladas unbearably happy longing for a reason happiness felt so terribly fleeting i swam ten meters down until the air ran out to fetch the heavy conch from the shallow sea bed you were already gone n the only one left was an iguana chewing a banana leaf If only all the pleasures of paradise or the mystery kept this thing alive it coulda shoulda woulda been the long lost love of my… why am I such a coward? hiding inside the blinding lighthouse light it was a lie we couldn’t survive i told to disguise my heart’s true desire i wasn’t the man you thought i was the woman who got caught If only two jars of formaldehyde or wishing alone kept this thing alive If only all the pleasures of paradise or the mystery kept this thing alive if only i could change your mind if only i could keep this long lost love of mine but the truth a woman knows that a man does not is when it comes to affairs of the heart there’s no substitution there’s no substitution for what we want for what we want for what we want for what we want for what we want