Take a step outside The leaves in the greenery Young, strong and healthy Setting the scenery The sun in the sky All it's heat to surround us Crooning perpetually So glad it found us Clouds so thin and white They look down from above Whispering in our ears They promise this is love Winds they pass us by The leaves stay in stasis We vow to do the same We can't replace this (And in the sunlight, surrounded by that warmth and beauty, you know everything will be okay. You are young, you're in love, and she promised she would stay Can't you remember, she promised forever, and that night will always be yours To stay with you, the tears in your eyes, the taste in your mouth, the sweat from your pores) Please take a step outside The leaves are all burning The sun follows their lead Oranges and reds so unnerving The winds still assault Surrounded by shadow and flame We cling to one another I smile and say your name But the gusts take us harder They swallow your replies The leaves blow between us I cannot see your eyes And the trees they are shameless They slowly strip in plain view The leaves are giving up And maybe we should too (You hear yourself calling out her name, again and again, into that blood red sky And start to reassure yourself with promises and desperate pleas that you can always die And the passion overcomes you, you embrace it, and all that matters is this second And it burns, deep into your mind, those thoughts unwanted, unbeckoned) The trees sway outside Shivering in their nakedness And curled up in bed I mimic their wakefulness For I cannot step outside As the whiteness controls me And seeping deep into my room That blankness consoles me As only sharpness lives out there The needles wait to greet me And separated by a sheet of glass Promise to defeat me Heartbeats turn to flat lines But there's no more time for crying The leaves lay withered on the ground Maybe it's our turn for dying