The Tower

The one who survives by making the lives

Of others worthwhile

She's coming apart

Tight before my eyes

The one who depends on the services she renders

To those who come knocking

She's seeing too clearly what she can't be

What understanding defies

She says I need not to need

Or else a love with intuition

Someone who reaches out to my weakness

And won't let go

I need not to need

I've always been the tower

But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

She turns up the light

Anticipating night falling tenderly around her

Watches the dusk

The words won't come

She carries the act so convincingly

The fact is sometimes she believes it

She can be happy with the way things are

Be happy with the things she's done

And yet I need not to need

Or else a love with intuition

Someone who reaches out to my weakness

And won't let go

I need not to need

I've always been the tower

But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

Reach out, hold back

Where is safety

Reach out and hold back

Where is the one who can change me

Where is the one

The one

Reach out, hold back

Where is safety

Reach out and hold back

Where is the one who can save me

Where is the one

The one

I need not to need

Or else a love with intuition

Someone who reaches out to my weakness

And won't let go

I need not to need

I've always been the tower

But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in the snow

The danger and the power

Friend and the foe