The Most Dangerous Thing About You

Tonight I'm hoping to be awake
I followed your car down to the lake

We got a table at the old boulevard club

The waitress offered a smile to your joke in politeness

You did not know
You held her talking while I waited watching

You laid your credit card on the table
And told me about your bills and the sale of hydro

The incompetence of your bosses and your lawyers

And the warming ocean
I woke up in your life

I was passing behind your eyes before
I knew what was yours and what was mine

I listened I took it all in stride
Your ideas and distorted pride
While learning by heart all your thoughts and your visions

The most dangerous thing about you is your pain

I know for me it is the same

It was restless you felt it

But never could call it by name
It was yours for life to have and hold
A companion that you had never known

A shadow you saw but never knew that you cast

And all of the sadness
You can't explain poured from you like a summer rain
Hand in hand with your child in the morning