Roam

Take me to roam
Where we can call it home
Where we can laugh like the locals
And our dreams can grow

I said I’d take you Rome
And you can show me home
You showed me the lights
Where you inspired growth

Out in Brooklyn Heights
You taught me to flow
You left me speechless, showed me Jesus
And I wish you know

That for the next 40 minutes when I couldn’t speak
It wasn’t me just trying to slip you a drink
It’s that everything that you implied made me think
And I couldn’t begin to process a single thing

Just a casual reminder of the simple fact
Of how difficult it is to form the simplest pact
Because even the slightest commitment can make me react
In the most childish of ways, and I’m sorry for that

Because while I know I can be Moses in doses
And lead you through your troubles into a bed of roses
With my charm and my arm pulling you, I know this
Is the start of the way that the mind exposes

Its weakest parts I’ve worked so hard to protect
So when I back off it’s instinct, please don’t expect
Me to never call again, I mean no disrespect
I just need my time to Fade, so we’re stronger when we reconnect

I said take me to roam
Where we can call it home
Where we can laugh like the locals
Where the dreams can grow

Remember when the bartender introduced himself Rome
And I played it off as if I’d known all along
But really, I saw it more like a sign that I wouldn’t lose you
So I tried to leave every sign to show I wouldn’t use you

No I wouldn’t take you home that night
And I wouldn’t throw myself onto your ever-building fright
Because all I ever intended was to show you fading light
As you Faded further west, ever in mind yet out of sight

I lose my lens
And I’d spend all of the feelings you’d ever lend
On the silence of the space I need to make personal amends
I’m out here left to fend

For myself in the jungle, I am the lion of cement
On concrete carvings I’m sketching our predicament
Of how I can reach you before the city’s inclement
Selfish head rears and steers me irreverent

I don’t want to be caught irreverent

I said take me to roam
Where we can call it home
Where we can laugh like the locals
Where the dreams can grow