**better stay away**

you'd better stay away
better stay away from
better stay away from me

clinging
to whatever i can
grasping
at the smallest straws
fading
i turn to it
nothing
seems to be what
it really seems to mean

i know it's not for me
changing
from what used to be
betraying
things that meant something
wanting
to let it go and just to be freed

just a taste
to feel again i must be fed
even if it is
just temporary
if all it does is squeeze
a little bit
out of me

so you'd better stay away
better stay away from
better stay away from me
cause i'm dying here
clinging to shallow
indiscretionary
undisiplined
chicanery

running from what it really meant to me