Measure for Measure

Let me just say a few words

Couple couplets that she hasn't heard

As I try to learn my way

With this vocabulary

Kinda scary with all the different

Things to talk about, sometimes what I meant

Isn't what I said, see I tend to mean more

But before the road ends for sure on this score

Let me take a pen again and confess my love endures

 

I know this looks the same to everybody else

I know every book cover looks the same on every shelf

But I swear this is something else at least than I have ever felt

And I think she feels it too,

I don't know, something in the way she moves

I can rewrite these lines a thousand times and she'd smile

Twice as bright as the first time and say "Never mind

About the perfect meter, or rewinding the beat I'm

Just here to hear what you have to say

And no matter whether rap or prose I'd love you anyway."

 

Yes that's cliche and what we all know to be true

But I ask you, when you saw a rainbow as kid, one or two

Did you tell you mom just once or twice?

Like calling winners of a prize fight

You're proud to know and share it with the class

So you go and show and tell it fast before math is back.

Now this girl has shot across the sky

Repainted every cloud and corner in my eyes

There's something a kiss does unravels you like rope

Unplug reboot your vision, amplify it like a telescope

I hope this clarity remains cause I didn't understand

How much drug a loving hug contains

And though I often say it weak or incomplete

Although I say it weakly kicking out my feet

My girl has got my heart, she's a part of me

And when she's a part from me

The world starts to go grey around the edges

But she's here and she ain't leaving yes I'm selfish

But I want her with me forever

And it's starting to look as if

We just might get our wish and watch the weather

Live happily ever after

Measure for measure

 

Let me come back just one more around this beat

Set out running laps until star crossed lovers meet

Around the moon. Our destinies been set since we

Sprung from the womb Romeo and Juliet, see sadly

They end dead in the tomb but the sun comes gladly

With breakfast and tunes the teens moved too soon to see

True love come through but my heart beats for two deeply

And too sweetly does she look at me with those eyes and that smile

That turns the whole world around and around

Warm and happy like an antiquated sundial

Sun dancing on the grass the same feeling

As hearing her laugh and I'm still reeling

I can't be concealing that I carry this flame

And I'll bear barefaced and full smile forever

Yes I care and we share in the same race, same pace

Lace up your running shoes and sing this love song true

Sing it measure for measure