This can t really be what life is all about
Learning how to live just to live without
The travesty s the irony and the irony is you
I ve traded in my sanctity for a cheaper
shade of blue

And as I surrender to this sunken bed
So afflicted by the tenant in my head
Even nowI wonder how you lay her down
to sleep
When secretlyI know it s my soul that you
pray to keep
But will you really keep me

FIRST CHORUS
Keep me
On your porchor on your tongue
Keep me
Beating in your chestor coming undone
Keep me
Folded neatly in the cover of your
favorite book
Keep me
At a distancein your maze
Fumbling through a contemplative haze
Or tucked away clandestinelywhere no one
else will look
Where my broken sky reaches to your
velvet sea
Will you keep mewill you keep me

Drowning in the bottom of this empty glass
I pray God is good and that this too shall
pass
Then from the abyssmaybe i ll find a
sweet reprieve
When the echo of your kiss reminds
me to believe
That you ll always keep me

SECOND CHORUS
Keep me
Under God or on your wall
Keep me
Behind closed doorsforever after all
Keep me
Or headed south on the blacktop ribbon we
designed
Keep me
On the mantel of integrity
Keep me
Investing in something I ll never see
Keep me
At thirty-thousand feet or in the windows of
your mind
In a corner of your heart under lock and key
Will you keep mewill you keep me

BRIDGE
Traipsing on hallowed ground
Has brought a lifelong sentence
Nowliving without your breath to fill my
lungs
Will be my penance
And even as I feel
I hope you feel it just as deeply
And even though you ve let me go
Say you ll always keep me
Say you ll always keep me

The melody you misconstrue
On the ocean crashing into you
Or waiting for the man you ll never have the
heart to be
In the fervent strains of this tragic elegy

Will you keep me
Will you keep me
Ohohwill you keep me
Will you keep me

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