Your Marlboro Lights

I'm letting go of the sights
Of a future with you
With your Marlboro Lights
And your bottles of booze

Because death and desire
Seem to go hand in hand
And while we burn like a fire
We still fall with the sand

You were curing my lonely
I was making you worse
And I could pray to the holy
That you could live through the hurt
But I was making you bitter
I was making you drown
Between white lines of glitter
My love was holding you down

Once the future was bright
When I missed all the signs
Of your Marlboro Lights
And your tabletop lines

But you tore me apart
And we brought out the worst
From inside our own hearts
Nothing cuts like the first

You were curing my lonely
In the dead of the night
And I could pray to the holy
That you could live through the fight
But I was making you colder
I was killing you slow  
Between a rock and a boulder
My love had to let go

Once we dreamed of a future
And we wanted it all
Thought with stitches and sutures
We might survive the fall

Now the bruises and breaks
Have gotten too bad to bear
No matter what you might take
You smell the death in the air

So I'll give you the freedom
As we're losing the fight
And I'll watch you leaving
With your Marlboro Lights