what's it mean to guard a heart?
veined with gold like mended ancient art
once turned to shards and first repaired with yarn
but now a treasure with a new life to start

and start we did so quickly diving deep
and now i can't sleep without you in the sheets
it's hard to see a future alone for me
and if i had to have one i'd surely weep

but to weep isn't weak and it's something i've done
and i know you have too, until your dry and numb
and it hurts to hear when you're saying your dumb and just like your Mum when really your loved

and despite all the love i can't make you happy
cos you're brains being fucked and your thoughts are all havoc
i pour and pour out with everything sappy
but at the end of the day only you can fight back here

but back you come as you've always done
and the stress fades a while and we have so much fun
it's in those moments i wish you could see the sun
you've brought to my life with so much warmth and comfort

but comfort is only so much of life
and even though soon you're set to be my wife
i know that we're in this together through strife
you can't douse my fire now it's alight

alight in my life you did at just the right time
the good it did can't be measured in words that rhyme or through displays of affection and kindness
your presence is one of unearthly sublime

and unearthly it is to me when you can't see it
when you actively fight back and try to flee it
the good that you are is what helped put the key in
and unlock a track that i hope might be freeing

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i promise i'm
not scared for us or me
i'm just in love
and i'm actually freaking
you want to be here
and turn 'alone' into 'we'
i'm not sure i'm worth it
now it's all close to peaking

but i know you are and you will be forever
i'm not scared of us or of being too tethered
instead i'm just scared that you'll get so damn sad
that you'll think i can't love you and that i'll get mad

but all i want for you to know
is that through emotional blizzards and the deepest snow
i'm right here for you and i'll never go
cos we've sown the seeds and now our hearts have grown

and i'll guard yours with a shining sword
and all the armour that i've ever hoarded
which isn't much but please take this on board
a life without you is one i don't want no more