Shareef Ali: Staying the Crucifixion of My Love

Shareef Ali plays "Staying the Crucifixion of My Love".

Lyrics:

If ten years ago you had promised,
I might have just shrugged off the cost.
But I've suffered more than just waiting,
and I wish ten years was all I'd lost.
But the secrets you hinted at--ah, how divine!
How slyly precocious, how ripe on the vine.
So maybe you thought you could catch up in ten,
or maybe I thought I was sixteen again.

Then I blinked--turned thirty-three.
You can think what you like about it, but you're still with me.

It wasn't your first time trying to kill me,
when you told me I could hold my breath.
Nor the first time you fulfilled it;
there were countless other little deaths.
I had charges against you that went on a mile;
one hell of a case, but it never saw trial.
If ever an alibi suited the crime:
you were murdering somebody else at the time.

So you walked. You went free.
You can talk your way around it, but you're still with me.

For nine and eleven, peace and order held,
both kingdoms in mutual exile.
The peace of the eyes of the tempests,
the order of ranks all in file.
Oh, ne'er was a standoff so classic as this:
not Edward and Tyler, nor Jadis and sis.
But you erred the same, daring me to be bold,
and I spoke the words to let all else unfold.

"Tarry yet; grant me a stay.
I can't carry it. Not yet, not this way."

It's just a warzone out there, baby.
I saw the shit when it came down.
The mightiest minds in the gutter,
the hardest hearts cracked as the ground.
All except this one, the toughest of birds,
as stupid as steel and as simple as words.
Your shelter from fallout, your armor from strife,
till they find a way to bring you back to life.

Can you hear? Can you breathe?
Are you still in there? Are you still with me?

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