The Achilles Heel Is that I know how you feel And I spilt those words Not because I’m away with the birds But because I wanted you to know You’re not alone when you move slow Like a glacier cutting through rock And I pretended to be something I’m not And there’s only so long I can keep it up Like the sound of you and her making love It echoes in my mind I try to leave it behind But it’s imprinted like a dice That rolled on me for being too nice To you when you would have devoured All of the women that you empowered With your subtle soul And a boy becomes man when he gets old But I don’t think I like Being the wrong side of your spite And when you bite Your teeth sink in That is why I am not with him
I knocked the wall down with the force of my kick And there are people who say he’s a dick But I rebel against that categorisation And do my own investigation And after years of sifting through pages I’ve realised that my heart rages To be let out of its cage And make love to the man I found in a past age And I was eighteen and six months older And he was a man just rolling a boulder Up a hill, he could never reach the top I was pretending to be something that I am not And somehow he saw the queen In between the subterfuge and the dream I left the door wide open when I walked out So that my intentions would not be in doubt You can follow me anywhere I go I’ll let out in, you know He held me close and I fell slow Into his arms And none of his charms Are wasted But what I tasted Were his innocent eyes Somewhere in between the disguise And now everybody knows That he’s the one my soul chose
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