Heaven Made of Teeth

You were sitting where the streetlights died,

With a broken heart and your hands held tight.

I came dressed in a stranger's skin,

With a mouth full of prayers and a chest full of sin.

You looked at me like I could be kind,

Like there wasn't a graveyard behind my eyes.

And I almost believed what you wanted to see,

When you smiled at the monster pretending to breathe.

Oh, darling, don't you know?

Some things are better left below.

But you reached through the dark,

And touched what was left of my heart.

Come a little closer,

Let me learn the shape of grace.

I've been building little heavens Out of every ruined place.

And if love is a religion,

I'll be kneeling at your feet.

With a halo made of hunger,

And a heaven made of teeth.

I could be your salvation,

I could be your sweetest sin.

Just don't ask me what I'm thinking When you tell me to

come in.

You smell like rain before it falls,

Like orchids growing through cathedral walls.

You laugh at things I don't understand,

While I memorize the warmth of your hand.

There's a bar on the corner,

a crack in the glass,

A song neither one of us wanted to last.

You talk about leaving,

about starting again, And I wonder how long I can hide what

I am. You think I'm lonely,

And maybe that's true.

But loneliness never frightened me

Half as much as losing you.

I thought that love was something still.

A quiet room.

A final will.

Two names carved where the flowers grow,

Somewhere the living cannot go.

But you talk about tomorrow

Like it's somewhere we could be.

Like the morning is a promise,

Not a thing that comes for me.

And I don't know how to tell you That I never learned

to stay.

I only learned to hold on Till the world was stripped away.

I WOULD HAVE CALLED IT MERCY!

I WOULD HAVE CALLED IT LOVE!

I WOULD HAVE DRAGGED US BOTH TO HEAVEN JUST TO KEEP YOU

CLOSE ENOUGH!

But you're laughing in the kitchen,

And the sunlight finds your face.

And for one unbearable second,

I don't want a better place.

I WANT THIS ONE!

I WANT THIS ONE!

I WANT THIS ONE!

WITH

YOU!

Come a little closer,

Let me learn another way.

I've been mistaking love for dying,

While you keep choosing to stay.

And if love is a religion,

Let me fall upon my knees.

I'm a creature made of hunger,

But you're more than something to keep.

I could be your damnation,

I could be your sweetest sin.

But you keep leaving doors unlocked,

And I keep wanting to come in.

You asked me if I was okay.

I should have told you no.

I should have walked away.

But you smiled.

And for the first time...

Heaven looked like somewhere

I could grow old.