Checkmate

(VERSE) I know it’s checkmate when the king gets cornered But the queen is still the strongest piece I may be good, but I’m still a person So there’s only so good that I can be I hate the taste of salt water But it makes the other water taste sweet Nothing ever loses its luster We just get used to it eventually Maybe it’s all perfect and all of my doubts Are because I do not know if I deserve it We’ve changed house a thousand times I think that the ghosts just might Be attached to me (CHORUS) Just another hundred thousand miles What is the length of love? There could never be enough time (VERSE) Everyday I wake to imaginary flames Dissipated by the softness of your face Sometimes I fantasize about simpler times But wouldn’t go back to yesterday Sometimes I wonder how people get so evil Then I think about someone causing you pain If this whole ship goes down I know what i’ll put my arms around One minute there is eternity (CHORUS) Just another hundred million miles What is the length of love? There could never be enough time (CHORUS) Just another hundred million miles What is the length of love? You are my life (SPOKEN INTERLUDE) In the dark you might find the thing were all composed of, our mere purpose, diluted, absolute anomalies feeling worthless, everyone is a miracle, even your nemesis, you either know it or forgot it, we’re not supposed to live like this. In my head or on my phone it’s the end of the world as we know it, perpetual beating down of our nature then I look out my window, I see sun, blue sky, a dog walking by, it taught me empathy, then a song comes on that reminds me of being 13 swimming in a safety net of oblivion. As bad as things can seem to get it can never really be all that bad because of you. We go together so anywhere is fine. It’s what I hang on to. There are no words just all these failed attempts to explain it. The feeling. Checkmate (CHORUSES) Just another hundred billion miles What is the length of love? There could never be enough time So just another hundred trillion miles What is the length of love? There could never be enough time So just another hundred gazillion miles What is the length of love? There could never be enough You are my life So just another hundred infinities