It’s so much harder when it’s real, when the facts get revealed
Contracts, the deals get enacted
Appeal and attraction are feelings for actions
Compare and contrast all the pairs of your past
Had passion in the back of a cab
Found caution in the captions that would pass from your hand
Overreacting at a casual strand of conversation
Dramatic in the manner demanded by occupations
Like ours, we’re the ones, the animals on stage
That strike at the captor from the cage
Started acting like our age, all estranged by the factors
That will change our reactions, redactions to the page
Malaise of distractions, interactions and the ways and the patterns
Of the day, seem to keep us away
I was hoping you would ask me to stay but that would be too real
It’s probably better if we keep it this way

It’s so much harder when it’s real, on the strength
She relinquished her grip from the head of the wheel
It was tentative, envisioned a seal being diminished
Had to steal all of our kisses, imprisoned by the feel
An extension of decisions we reeled off
Tensions get peeled off like stickers, the flickers of light bleed
On the pictures, on the nights you remember
We were seen walking bridges, low degrees, making scenes in the winter
I was pleased to deliver facsimiles
Of an act that you needed for the practice, I pleaded
“I’m compulsive, an addict, had to have it”
Impulses and habits, they got combustive, had you shocked by the static
No, it’s not automatic, like we thought it would be
I look around in all directions when you’re talking at me
Caught a panic when you got me to leave
It’s just confidence tricks from a profiting thief, that’s all it be