Hot Coffee, Cold Water, Eyes Look Down

A catching in your breath
You don't know what to say
A racing in your chest
As love wanders away

Up a flight of stairs
Like a ghost of something real
An exoskeleton
Forgetting how to feel

She says she doesn't know how
To breathe the same stale air
To put on the same uniform
And the mask she's s'posed to wear

You say she doesn't have to
But she acts like you're a lie
And you wonder if it's your fault
When she says she wants to die

Are you just another luster
That's been lost from its old ore
Or are you hidden somewhere deep inside
A now bereft and burnt-out core

Yeah, you don't know what to say
But you've been trying to figure out
What if anything she'd listen to
Of love without a doubt

But the world's beaten her black and blue
For the beautiful and vain
But you know there's so much more to her
So much more it drives you insane

Now you'd love to be her only one
But you know you're not what she needs
A savior who knows her every step
But loves her for more than her good deeds

Someone who loves her in her heavy heart
Someone who holds her deep inside
Someone who knows her and meets her in the dark
And comforts her when she cries

And no matter how much you want it
You still don't know what to say
To make her see the worth she has
As love wanders away

Yeah, no matter how much you say it
Right now all you can do is pray
And it kills you 'cause you know it's killin' her
As love wanders away