Lyrics Perilous Love - O'Brother

Perilous Love

Take what you want
Leave me broken, leave me estranged
Just tear me apart
Still my devotion remains the same
I bit my tongue
For fear of igniting something I can’t tame
A perilous love
Will be my undoing, nothing will remain
What you want from me
Is my everything
What you want is a perfect endeavor
What I want can’t escape from me now
What you want from me
Is my everything
What you want is subconsciously clever
All I want are deliberate lies
I try to escape from my mind
But I’ve been tied with subliminal lines
I try, try to retain what is mine
And I just lie just to keep us alive
Set me aside
With a brazen integrity I can’t obtain
Leave my insides
Tangled in knots that I can’t rearrange
I bit my tongue
For fear of igniting something I can’t tame
A perilous love
Will be my undoing, nothing will remain
No time left to devote
Madness follows a slippery slippery slope
I try to escape from my mind
But I’ve been tied with subliminal lines
I try, try to retain what is mine
And I just lie just to keep us alive