the new song

didn't know what hit me when i saw you standing there

thought i would feel so different, feel nothing at all

wasn't set for you to smile, not set for you to meet my eyes

not ready yet to be so glad you'd walked back to my life

my life

i drew to you immediately, oh i felt you from here

that tension was raw and alive despite our best intentions oh and

we made a deal not long ago of how this game was to proceed and it's okay the way we play but it's too late to let it be

i find it hard to focus with my senses tuned like this

my pulse is racing fingers tracing patterns on the armrest

six inches sit between us now, six weeks of silence in there too

my very pores are seething seeking signals back from you and

it's much too late to toe the line, we've opened back what came before; your smell your taste back in my sight, you know it's left me wanting

so what do we do now? what do we do now?

we move along, i take your arm, i get to breathe you in

you pull me closer draw me in and i am lost in you

though i know the reason that we missed last time around

remains as valid proper realized right now as it ever was

we drew that line to save ourselves 'cause we both know we're in no place to give up what the other needs

but that's a risk that i will take

that is a choice that i will make

'cause i know what it's like to wake

up

next

to

you

i know what i want now/i know what i want now

so fuck that deal from long ago

the only deal is with today

and how we'll deal with it this time

if it will go the same way

i'm ready for this now

i'm ready for this now

i'm ready for this now

i'm ready for you now.

yeah, that's the new one. i'll be laying that down on sunday. and let me tell you, it will be turning my cheeks pink. objects in mirror are closer than they appear, after all. catch it live january 8 at the orange bear.