We met in unusual circumstances
Hospital floors aren't built for slow dances
Brussel sprouts and solitary confinements
A pair of comatose diamonds
I adored you ardently
You see before you I had been a binary between
Cabaret performance and aloneness
A porcupine terrified of closeness
What are your spikes? What are your spikes?
Let's talk about that tonight
Tenderly tend to the China shop inside
Conversations rarely go like this
But with you I find
Like a candle in a cave
Like a surfboard on a wave
You invite a new way to behave
It's your tenderness I crave
And like the bright lights on a stage
Your love, your love makes me brave
Your love makes me brave
It descended on me like thunderclaps
That the giant of yourself could feel so terribly unworthy
Sat in Schizophrenia's lap
You had a mind that tickled like eyelashes
These feather fingertips
And you understood how the rumbling in a broken past
Could creep its way through the rib cage to an open heart
Somehow, somehow you made sunshine trees grow in the dark
Bore bionic life as you dared to be transparent to the bone
And slowly we made bread to eat from these forbidden stones
Of frozen stigma and unspoken words
That every child thinks but that are seldom heard and for sure
Like a candle in a cave
Like a surfboard on a wave
You invite a new way to behave
It's your tenderness I crave
And like the bright lights on a stage
Your love, your love makes me brave
Your love makes me brave
You were like a solitary lamppost on a country road
And I stood under you for as long as I could
Electric yellow somehow you fluffed up pillows
Lay duvets underneath the steel frame of silence
And with your voice like a ballerina in a music box
Like the sound of hundreds-and-thousands
You tinkled in tears, and in your gentleness
Giants that have taken grown girls to the grave fell like blonde hair and
Like a candle in a cave
Like a surfboard on a wave
You invite a new way to behave
It's your tenderness I crave
And like the bright lights on a stage
Your love, your love makes me brave
Your love makes me brave
Like a candle in a cave
Like a surfboard on a wave
You invite a new way to behave
It's your tenderness I crave
And like the bright lights on a stage
Your love, your love makes me brave
Your love makes me brave