Mine for Life

A life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for lifeLooking from a spiral staircase
At a man with a suitcase
As he shades his eyesWatching from a stained glass shelter
He bides his time and thinks
There must be more to life than thisA life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for lifeThe poet reads his words out loud
To a make-believe crowd
In the quiet of his roomCareful where the tears are falling
He closed the book and cried
There must be more to love than thisSee the boy on the walkway
Where the young have their own say
And it screams from the wallHe's writing for the hundredth time
There I hate it all but
There must be more to hate than thisA life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for lifeA life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for lifeA life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for lifeA life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for life