Karaoké Never Love an Anchor The Crane Wives

On some level I think

I always understood that these hands of mine were clumsy not clever

And I tried to do the best that I could but try as I might I couldn't bring myself to hold you

It's a secret I keep tucked inside my chest

With this heart of mine that's guilty not remorseful

There is love that doesn't have a place to rest

But it would have buried you if it had settled on your shoulders

On some level I think

I always understood that a ship could never really love an anchor

So I did the only thing that I could and severed the rope to set you sailing from my harbor

There are times when I still wonder about you

You are someone I have loved but never known

And you'll never see the reasons I had

For keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you

I am selfish, I am broken

I am cruel

I am all the things they might have said to you

Do you ever think of me and my two hands and wonder why they never soothed your fevers

And wonder why they never tied your shoes

And wonder why they never held you gently

And wonder why they never had the chance to lose you