Erase

You and I will be together

When we shed our memory

I won't wear an orange sweater

When I get it off of me

When it's as it someday is

It always will have been the case

When your ever-searching finger

Finds the button marked erase

Finger find the button marked erase

Like a deep sea diver

Falling into a mermaid's embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next

And the first one's gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one

Button marked erase

When darlings must be murdered

When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart

Think of this as solving problems

That should never have occurred

Please don't call it strangulation,

That is such an ugly word

Press erase, ignore the shrill alarms

See the way the deep sea diver

Falls into the mermaid's arms

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next

And the first one's gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one

Button marked erase

When darlings must be murdered

When your heartbreak overrides the very

Thing you can not face

The skeletons that won't stay down

The mercy kill that can't be drowned

Put

Box

Sidewalk

Then

Return

Next

First one gone

Everyone

On

Bus

Out

Lights

Out

One by one

Finger find the button marked erase

Like a deep sea diver

Falling into a mermaid's embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next

And the first one's gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one