Coward

If you're the sun, surrounded by your stars
I sit outside alone, counting passing cars
If you're a light, to everyone you meet
A neon green to everyone you greet
Then (yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow)
I'm red, even when no one's within miles.
All I ever wanted to be:
Was just a whisper passing someone's lips
Just within someone's outstretched fingertips
Just a face forgotten in the crowd
Instead of outside, begging to be found
(A fellow, fellow, fellow, fellow)
Always surrounded by
(yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow)
Red, whenever I'm around.
I only wanted to be:
Just another breath, burning through your lungs
(hello, hello, hello, hello)
Just a song, hoping someday to be sung
Those are my hopes you're crashing on the shore
There are my dreams, now dying on your floor
Can you even hear me knocking at your door
(hello, hello, hello, hello)
When all I ever wanted to be was nothing more
Than just another breath.

Everything has passed me by
In the sea, in the wind
I'm left without an alibi
For everything I don't begin.
Darling look now, look away
Ignore the shifting, swirling fray
And do not look me in the eye
This man without a face.
Oh love, so misadventured
Expired before its time
The pleasures now indentured
The duties now a grind.
(Darling, I'm a lie)
I thought perhaps another try
Would gift another face
But I remain unchanged
A man without a place.
(Darling, I've no face)
A yellow streak
From cheek to cheek
Is all that dwells above my neck
If you seek my features,
Darling do not trace,
You'll find nothing there,
Well, nothing good,
Only more mistakes.