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