Separated - Eliza Gilkyson

It won’t last long, it’s got a fatal flaw

Woven into the fabric, set into the foundation

I’m getting too old for this unhappy end

My story’s been told again and again

Scratchy tune on my violin

A tired equation

But I want to get close to the flame

I want to feel love course through my veins

Though I reel with the pleasure and pain

I’m gonna know what it is to remain separated

Hide and seek, child play

Coming up close and running away

Surging and crashing

This longing that lives in us all

But I don’t want to play Ophelia in the end

Or lose myself to anyone ever again

Or be a victim of passion

Or set myself up for a fall

But I want to get close to the flame

I want to feel love course through my veins

Though I reel with the pleasure and pain

I’m gonna know what it is to remain separated