Smoke & Steam

It's because I love you most of all

I'm running hot and you're burning clean
It's the difference between smoke and steam
But we both are prone to the heat of the road
In time we both are bound to explode

I don't mean to be a lone wolf but I am
And I must remember no one could mess it up
Better than a confident man
With his pride and his self-assured
Self-preferred method of doing things
Lest we forget the unheard words
Spoken by those guessing through the lesson of losing things
No it ain't pretty but this is how it gets done
Communication like a revolver
Selfish aggression like a plastic cap gun
One will reach the target
The other is just some noise and some manufactured nonsense

Speak with venom to those you love
And plan on fractured trust and some consequence
There's nothing new below the sun
But there's something true in the eyes of the young
Which disappears as years progress
And disappointments met tend to pile up
The process is as old as time itself
Or at least as old as rhyme itself
As long as language has been in place and at play
People betray themselves by what they say
I'm tryin' I swear but I fall short
Speak my mind and interrupt the quote unquote conversation
Leave no time or space to retort or respond
The honest truth is I'm afraid of sounding weak
Hang up the phone before the beep
Wait
I didn't even give myself a chance to speak

You're running hot and I'm burning clean
It's the difference between smoke and steam
But we both are prone to the heat of the road
In time we both are bound to explode

You can lie to yourself just like you lie to your partner
We can argue all day long
Or we can change the tone and take off the armor
We can fight about who started it like a couple of kindergarteners
I wanna make it easy sweetheart
But somehow I just make it harder
I'm in the hot seat at the kitchen table giving it all I got
Employing every avenue on the topic to unravel this knot
Heart lost, arms crossed in my immovable position
5 love languages to converse in
Still a person craves a little vision
Uncertain of the future like a user
Worried sick y'all
Where's the directory, they got a fortune teller in this mall?
Maybe in between the shoe store and the other shoe store in the wing

Near the food court
Across from where that line of shoe stores used to be
Is this a sign?
Maybe I just need a new pair of kicks
To be like a brand new man without my nervous tics and bad habits
I just wanna fly away like Lenny Kravitz
Love is savage but you gotta let it rule
Take the worst of my regrets and try to use'm like fuel
I might as well address 'em
Cause they've been kicking at me like a mule
Making the present less like a gift and more like a penance
Call the president up I might need a pardon from a life sentence
Bottom line I can do better
Daily reading Colonel Sullivan Ballou's letter
Get serious about serving and returning like my man Roger Federer
I love you baby but maybe I don't need to say much more
But lemme try to say it like the Mills Brothers did back in 1944

You always hurt the one you love
The one you shouldn't hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose
And crush it 'til the petals fall
You always break the kindest heart with a hasty word
You can't recall so if I broke your heart last night
It's because I love you most of all