Look Away

Two eyes staring back at me

From a magazine in my room

Cut out paper tragedies

Paper tragedies that I glue

Show up cause of memory

If it only feels black and blue

Creating a fantasy

Something I can dream

That is true

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I don't see it

Another message

Left for me in code

Hieroglyphics

I never figured out

How to unfold your paper cranes

Origami agony

I ripped the edges

It gave me pleasure

Figuring it out

Each question in a shroud

It's been forever

Wasn't forever

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

Now when I close my eyes

I see how much I've lost

From scratching a memory

'Til all the color's off

Revealing a jagged line

Still there in black and white

When I close my eyes

If I close my eyes

But I can't laugh about it yet

It's all too soon

The things we used to joke

About have all come true

I had to slowly back away

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I will only look away

If you say

I will only look away

If you say

If you say

I will never look away

When you say