WITNESS - Said The Sunrise lyrics

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I said "until when", she said "forever"<br />

I hope by then that I'll be old enough to know better<br />

I tip toed on a pretty little landmine and<br />

Read the body language that she wrote between her tan lines<br />

But now we find our better judgment at the whim<br />

Of the fingers writing cursive on the surface of our skin<br />

It's like they're fumbling to unbutton the buttons<br />

But there's something in my stomach that resembles reluctance<br />

Because the moment that our tongues begin to speak french<br />

I feel like a ghost in another lover's feet prints<br />

I need a defense<br />

In case she repents<br />

Under the pretense that we should probably be friends<br />

There's flowers in a wine bottle on her vanity<br />

And a wooden crucifix that hangs above her bed<br />

She was asleep, I was looking for an exit<br />

Cause I know she doesn't love me and I wish we never met<br />

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She was a forty five caliber sweetheart tucked under my chin line<br />

And when the casings hit the pavement it reminded me of wind chimes<br />

It was a thin line, a perforated edge<br />

It should have torn apart the moment that we laid in bed<br />

Head on my chest, like she's following a metronome<br />

She was a poem, like a painting, like a lilac<br />

And when she blinked, I think the universe stopped<br />

As she traced a constellation through my freckles with an eyelash<br />

But, it ain't affection. She called it foreplay.<br />

It wasn't making love either, it was portrayed<br />

With words in poor taste, the kind that strike deep<br />

Designed to redefine beautiful as quite cheap<br />

There was a bright street light leaking through her window<br />

And when the wind blows, it stutters like it's tongue tied<br />

But so was I<br />

We were strangers in the morning<br />

So when I said "until when" she should have said "the sunrise"