How can it be you’ve loved me this long
When I’ve watched your eyes roll in a deep sleep?
And I can’t help but think of that line you always repeat
How, “you can’t wait forever.”

And I know I’m shy
My act is strong
When you push the hair away from my neck
I can’t go on
It’s a funny thing the way you look at me
Like I’m some sort of treasure of the past
And of what could be

I’ve seen the signs long ago
That you think I’ve stopped believing
It’s a terrible crime
The tablets broke
Commandments we carved out of stone
Turned to rubble

And I know I’m shy
My act is strong
When you read the words off the back of my hand
I can’t go on
It’s a funny thing the way you look at me
Like I’m some sort of treasure of the past
And of what could be