All That We Have Become
She laughed at the way they used to be Burned the pictures from memory lane And she wondered how when together they ever felt free How they had ever stayed sane When in fact it was true love that tasted like insanity That sounded like bondage So now they had wished they'd only seen Instead of burning all of their bridges But how could they've known that bipolar was like desire And schizophrenia was a lot like passion Like some days you are the forgotten embers at the base of a fire And other days you are a hunger during a famine where the food is only given in rations Until either driven by love or fear She set fire to his car on their old anniversary's eve And when he bailed her out of jail and wiped away her tears With the fabric of his shirtsleeve They kissed under the glow of the moon And red and blue lights from the station And joked at how easily they could start to swoon After a year of fears and not being able to face t