Chapstick - Mark Johns

Your absent, dismissive

Acting to feel like your characteristic

And I have been patient

So the both of us don’t fall apart

No no no

I swear I don’t want us to fall

So I have to ask myself, hey

How do you make, wild love stay

If it’s in a glass cage on the wall?

It was never really caged at all,

Now it’s gone

So we fight and you hide

And I look up and you go down

We’re fine despite that you go up

When I look down

You’re a deadbeat, not a fighter

You’re like chapstick, or a lighter

I know you’re there if I really need you

But sometimes it takes a while

I’m laid back, submissive

But that don’t mean I’ll keep putting up with it

I have been patient

So the both of us don’t fall apart

No no no

I swear I don’t want us to fall

But I have to ask myself, hey

How do I say that it’s not okay

And I’m not okay with it at all

When I swear I’m talking straight to a wall

and soon I’ll be gone

So we fight and you hide and I look up

And you go down

But we’re fine despite that you go up

When I look down

You’re a deadbeat, not a fighter

You’re like chapstick, or a lighter

I know you’re there if I really need you

But you take too long to fight