Ingenue

Ingenue, what is it about you
Why am I a fool for you
Ingenue, I get so giddy around you
Maybe 'cause I know you'll be leaving soon

Off to a foreign land
To broaden your horizons
Too hard to love one man
With billions of other options

Diamonds for breakfast
You cut your teeth on the edges
Moved off your axis
So you go
Prove all the skeptics
Incorrectly didactic
The truth is out there &
You are also

But what I want you to know
Is I am real
And what I wanted to show you
Is what's concealed inside you

I never fell like this before
You make me ache, I'll go below

Once upon a time
I stood in your line
And waited
Waited for a sign
To beckon me inside
With bated breath I took your lead
As you danced with me
Waltzing me around by the enmity

It's a shame the world's a finite place
And that you were born to see it
'Cause when it's done and no new space awaits
You're left with what you're being
Only you, Ingenue

You see yourself in the world
I see the world in myself
You've got the answers so far
But not regarding yourself
Look into the void inside me
Don't be paranoid and shine me
Listen to some Floyd to remind me
I wish you were here, come find me...

© 2001 Simeon Flick

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