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your eyes stay on mine for a moment too long, and then i start to feel

Please don't come too close to me

You're smile is much too soft
Your eyes, they're so inviting
And I'm scared of getting caught,
Swept up in those feelings and in gazing at you
I have a sinking feeling that you will break me too

And I cannot fall apart again, i still am not together

If I go and break my heart again, I will never get better
So I give a melancholy shrug as I watch you go by
Because you can never break my heart
If i don't let you try
But there's part of me that's empty
Part that maybe you could fill
The risk, however, is much too great
The threat is just too real
So now I will deny myself
And dismiss all thoughts of you
So please do not creep into my thoughts or into my dreams
When I close my eyes sometimes
I see flashes of what we could be

But then I remember the last time and the time before that

And I cannot fall again

this is a matter of fact

and so i hide myself away, from every last shred of you

so please will you not smile at me

or lock your eyes with mine

they make my dear heart skip a beat and it is out of time

but my heart still is much too weak

that beat i miss will leave me deceased

it softly pumps and carries on 

but your love may do me wrong

your arms around me may break my bones

those yet, so brittle, not made of stone

but if you want your arms around me, i don’t actually know

that hint of doubt will do me in

the fear of the unknown leaves me stricken

i hate myself for these thoughts of you

because i don’t know how you think

or how you feel, not about me

but if there is a chance that you do

keep it to yourself, its not about you

its about my feeble, broken soul

after all this time I’ve lost control

my heart is bleak and empty yet

love for you could leave me dead

so save my soul and my life too

and love someone who’s more like you