Testo di Pilot Light

Now, you’re saddled up with another and living in another state I was never the kind of guy you went for anyway The tortoise shell glasses, tousled mouse-nest hair The hand-rolled cigarettes The scuffy air of condescending, gleeful disenfranchisement I'm still helplessly hopeful, and it’s got nothing to do With if it’s the right time, or if I'm the right guy for you When we keep in touch now, you say you’re so glad we’re still friends I say I am, too, but I for one have been pretending And I’ll always be pretending till I die or lose my cool Or until you relent and say you’ve been pretending, too Your heart is as patient and cocked As a bead of balanced dew Parapet cheekbones, eyes like oil Poised above the moat You keep yourself like a secret, you’d rather be left alone I’ve just always liked you, and I can dull it down But it’ll never quite shut off, or ever quite burn out I'm like the light on your VCR that stays on Even though you could’ve sworn you turned it off I’ve got a heart with a pilot light that burns All night just in case you want to turn you on Your heart is as patient and cocked As a bead of balanced dew Sitting heavy at the tip of a leaf You are never gonna let me shake it loose I’ll always be pretending, till I die or lose my cool Or until you relent and say you’ve been pretending, too