HERE TO STAY

How did I ever end up with

A lover AND a friend?

I thought that ONE ended

Where the other ONE began

I've heard others talk of it

But just thought their full of shit

Hard to keep that sense of balance

In a relationship

But now things have changed

From what I thought before

You always leave me laughing

And begging you for more

I've never had occasion

To be of this persuasion

But I guess all this elation

Is what I was praying for

I don't even think

About pain or futility

Just drown myself in

This heartfelt humility

I wake up every morning

You're the first thought I have

Work all day till 4:30

Seek all day to get back

And I can't imagine

How I made it here

Without you

- No matter

What may happen

- I will never doubt you

You've given me

A new kind

Of sensibility

Want to spend every second

With you next to me

Walking around with a sense of vertigo

Dizzy and sick

Cause my heart is so full

- I realize this

May sound ridiculous

But you consume

My every thought

- All I want is this bliss

I've spent my whole life

Secretly feeling alone

Never had a sense of belonging

Never had a "home"

But now I know that feeling

That I haven't had since my parents

Lost in your love

And your instant adherence

To these new inclinations

To our new set of rules

Not rules we must follow

But these rules that we choose

Want to break down these walls

And build new ones with you

Turn our thoughts into tables

And our love into food

Our laughter to flowers

Our sleep into dreams

Our past into pastures

It's blackness to green

If home's where the heart is

Then our hearts pay the rent

Paint each layer of our love

Like our picket fence

I'll never forsake you

And I won't have to lie

You changed heartache

From heart break

To my new reason why

I get up in the morning

Why I work hard all day

Because I know in the end

You're my end

Here to stay