Don't Take It Personally

Both these hearts are fading

A cardiac arrest is waiting

No, I'm not much for painting

But there's no more time for negotiating

Each vessel's blood's cascading

Ignore the piles of pencil shavings

I can't quite get the shading

Perhaps a drink or ten will save me

I'm so tired of feeling this

I'm so tired of what's drawn in my head

So I'll take these hallucinogens

Just to forget about when she said

"You can surrender your heart, but it won't be enough

Don't take it personally, I'm afraid of love"

A state of indecision

Am I the culprit or the victim?

Now, all the love I've given

Is flowing through this blackened ink

A mass of small incisions

On a canvas not built for precision

If the drugs aren't in my system

Then what the hell has blurred my vision?

I'm not sure if it's permanent

But if it is then I might as well be dead

I don't want to get hurt again

But I remember the time she said

"You can surrender your heart, but it won't be enough

Don't take it personally, I'm afraid of love

So, just keep playing your part and I'll keep calling your bluff

But don't take it personally when push comes to shove"

White as snow, my wrist and my heart

Where you kissed, pulled apart

Till it burns like charcoal

It's so cold

And so, I just pray for some warmth

In this stick-and-poke

So, if to render my art, I need to own the right stuff

Perhaps what's burdened me won't quite be enough

So, I'll keep sketching my songs

And keep on tuning my brush

Until time has worthened me deserving of love

You can surrender your heart, but it won't be enough

Don't take it personally, I'm afraid of love

So, just keep playing your part and I'll keep calling your bluff

But don't take it personally when push comes to shove