"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love." Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]

Friends and Lovers

I'm a ne'er-do-well

running out of black gold

It's high time I pulled over

and walked around

for awhile.

I've seen that porcelain shell

your exoskeleton

and I feel like we'd walk well

together

because, in the end

we are friends and lovers.

If asked of me I would

gobble them to bits,

the things that wall us off

from

where we belong.

What's wrong with you is good

for what's wrong with me

and I think maybe we should 

stick

together

because, in the end

we are friends and lovers.

We are friends and lovers.

Abandon all the bones

we've got to pick,

they'll only weigh us down

and

we're better than that.

And if they all throw stones

we'll start a collection 

of everything we're not

and

won't be

'eeeecause

you should never have to defend

being friends and lovers.

We are friends and lovers.

We are friends and lovers.

Brandon Boyd is a poet. Buy the new Incubus album, If Not Now, When? and, maybe, you will find a song that moves you like this one moved me <3