I Know You

Walking with you through the courtyard Where everything's marble and smooth You said the idea of perfection Was just fundamentally cruel And talked about joining the circus And trading your face for a mask Oh I know you want to I just don't believe that you can We made quite a pair in the morning We both tend to traffic in dreams Seeing it now from the outside You kept all your dark ones from me And said you plan to go rambling As you sat on that big windowsill Oh I know you want to I just don't believe that you will You long to go hide in the bramble Or fall off the face of the earth You wish you could live with the beggars On the steps of some crumbling church You say you'd like to go hungry But the truth is you just had your fill Oh I know you want to I just don't believe that you will On Sundays you stroll through the market And feel like you traveled through time Buying back all your possessions That were stolen from some former life Return to me tied in a corset To say "don't you know who I am?" Oh I know you want to I just don't believe that you can Yes I know you want to I just don't believe that you can And trying to make an invention Something the world's never seen To sweep away all of the trouble And leave the place shiny and clean Patent your brave new creation And hold it right there in your hand Oh I know you want to I just don't believe that you can I waited for you at the landing The water was crystal and calm All these ideas of forever Are just fundamentally wrong You say that your love makes you honest Then you're caught with your hand in the till Oh I know you want to I just don't believe that you will Yes I know you want to I just don't believe that you will